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He added that central banks’ reliance on backward-looking economic data meant they were likely “to dawdle, rather than hike.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

She has set a six-minute daily time limit as a reminder not to dawdle on Instagram.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When you’re moving tons of food at the edge of its usefulness — an average of 250,000 pounds or 125 tons every day — no one can afford to dawdle.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

If a few passengers dawdle while stowing their bag and finding their seat, it can make the difference between a flight being on time or late in the government’s official statistics.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Others dawdle, the ones with a kitchen full of kids and help that has gone home.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

If Minnesota dawdles, it “will rack up $1 billion of deferred payments this year,” the CMS head said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

It is the role of prosecutors to vindicate that interest by initiating judicial action when a defendant dawdles.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2024

Many of Dellario’s gently impressionistic pictures depict Rock Creek as it dawdles through and around large, glistening rocks.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

The second movement is an inert nocturne; in the third an intriguing idea, a duet passage for tuba and harp, dawdles into irrelevance.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2016

The Meandering Letter As its name implies, the meandering letter is one which dawdles through disconnected subjects, like a trolley car gone down grade off the track, through fences and fields and flower-beds indiscriminately.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily

While Kelly dawdled for the decisive goal, Bain made a superb save late on to deny Manchester United's Amad Diallo.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Later, at Brasserie de Monaco, the principality’s craft beer brewery, I dawdled over a pint of Blonde de Monaco and fell into conversation with Nils, a Danish skipper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

When the horses eventually broke from the gate, Zenyatta, as usual, dawdled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

She had been performing well in recent months, Ms. Loesche said, but today she had dawdled by the door, hesitant to step inside.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Cut a dawdling fight scene here and an interminable escape scene there, and the film would make a delightful in-universe companion to precede next summer’s “Superman” sequel, “Man of Tomorrow.”

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Like, just in case someone’s dawdling, or being careless about where they’re dumping snow.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

They try to take advantage of Anna Patten dawdling at the byeline as she's dispossessed by Martina Piemonte, but the rest of the Villa defence get back to ensure she can't move towards goal.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024

Wearing an electric-blue jacket emblazoned with the words “Tell Your Dog I Said Hi,” she crouches low to film a dawdling old pug named Jojo with her iPhone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

As we came off, you were moving at the dawdling speed of a small child.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates