tardy
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She says states accepted tardy mail ballots amid World War I, while seven authorized the practice during the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025
In October 2013, the inflation and employment reports for the prior month were also tardy by nearly two weeks because of a 16-day government shutdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
"I'm a little tardy with the paper work," he told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
“Now go see Mrs. Howard,” she replied, “before you are tardy on your first day back.”
From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos
The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.
From Time Magazine Archive
The effect here is tardier than when the speck of putrid liquid was employed.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
There is, however, this difference, that in some ages these evils last longer than in others, the wounds are deeper, the victims more numerous, the intermissions less frequent, the relief tardier, the survivors fewer.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
It reacted to divide his forces now, at least to make tardier his self-command.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
French, like English, which had a yet tardier literary growth, has pursued its course unhasting, unresting, to the present hour.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
TAP Air Portugal is one of the tardiest of airlines.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023
The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late.
From Time Magazine Archive
America has been the tardiest among all the industrial nations to undertake this kind of social reform.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
Barely had the tardiest Intelligencer employees got away when the enveloping jaws of the weed closed tight, catching millions of dollars' worth of property within.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
A month soon passes, even at its tardiest pace.
From The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens
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