straggling
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With nearly all the straggling mail ballots counted as of Wednesday, turnout in the midterm reached about 64%.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022
"It was really challenging straggling down the rock faces to get to this shoreline and count all the plastic that was there," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022
“Usually, you have to call somebody, somebody might be doing something different, come in straggling from special teams or something,” Morris said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022
A pair of straggling spectators crossed his path, and he swerved to avoid them, nearly losing his balance, and he ran on.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
They had not gone far on the fifth day when they left the last straggling pools and reed-beds of the marshes behind them.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Things They Carried
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