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tardy

[tahr-dee] / ˈtɑr di /


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Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Regulators said when they filed the case that his tardy filing allowed him to spend less to buy up Twitter’s shares, saving him more than $150 million on the investment.

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.

From MarketWatch Dec. 20, 2025

The idea is to accommodate slow play after more than a quarter of PGA Tour events were unable to complete a round before darkness because play was tardy.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2024

“Is this your electronic signature from the tardy log?” she asks me.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

Lady Dorinda put another seed in her mouth, and reflected that Zélie's attendance was tardier than usual.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Merion pursued, at greater distance still, With tardier coursers, and inferior skill.

From The Iliad by Alexander Pope

I was living in the daily hope of that remittance from you, which, by the way, seems always tardier in coming in proportion as Ireland grows more prosperous.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

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

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

Her throat was bare, and her dusky hair was a shade dishevelled, and in her meditative eyes he caught the flicker of her tardiest dream just as it vanished.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

But Meriones, stout squire of Idomeneus, came in a spear-throw behind famous Menelaos, for tardiest of all were his sleek-coated horses, and slowest he himself to drive a chariot in the race.

From The Iliad by Homer




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