slack
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At the same time, cut yourself some slack.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Every veteran touring musician knows that the best way to snap the audience to attention is to stop singing during their biggest hit and invite the audience to take up the slack.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
By reputation she is a tough negotiator who cuts commercial tenants little slack for minor violations and refuses to give an inch when negotiating a lease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
His assistant coaches, mostly a group of his former Granada Hills players, have to pick up the slack sometimes with the subsequent practices early in the following week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
As always when things got behind in the family or at the store, I was the one who took up the slack.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
In another writer’s hands, the soft-handed seat-fillers of his slacker masterpiece “Office Space” would be contemptible.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The prototypical Gen Xer is resilient and cynical, a “latchkey kid” turned disaffected slacker, raised on MTV and limited parental supervision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
That realisation manifests in the lovestruck slacker rock of Dragonfly, and the finger-plucked Neptune Baby, with its refrain, "I'm a boat, and you are the water".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
Ripley, a slacker and a con man grinding out a living in postwar New York, is sent to Italy to try to persuade a trust-funded idler to come home and take over the family business.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Father: “I don’t know where you picked up that slacker attitude, but you certainly didn’t learn it at home. Probably from the bad influences up here.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
The UK has the slackest regulation of all EU members; other member states are much more stringent in their approach.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
It was the most abstract and highly changeable concert I’ve seen this group perform, and also the slackest: inspired on one level, frustrating on another.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reissiger had been the slackest of theatre conductors, the slackest of the slack old school.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
Laura Overdeck on Wednesday sat by her legal team in the light-wood-paneled courtroom in Newark, N.J. wearing a gray-and-white striped jacket, white slacks and chunky blue heels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
She added with a laugh that she’d brainstormed speech material the previous night while shaving her legs, despite the fact that she was outfitted in slacks at the ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
The dads were in their after-work best: slacks and a sweater, some sort of brown shoe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
I change into black slacks and a dressy blouse.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
As time elapsed, Sand’s rate of production never slacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If teammates slacked off in practice after partying late, he’d shoot them extra hard puck passes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Speaking to the press, he said: "I've given my heart and soul. I can't think there'll be too many cricket fans out there who would think I've slacked off for a moment."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023
It's not as if Eigenberg ever slacked off in maintaining his physique; he also plays a main role in "Chicago Fire."
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
During John’s first year at the University of South Dakota, when he had discovered basketball and girls and slacked off in his studies, he received a stern upbraiding.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
If nothing is on the books, it could look like you’re slacking off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
With her apartment a flood zone and her landlord slacking off on the maintenance, Linda and her daughter are forced to live at a nearby hotel.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
Florida’s experience isn’t an endorsement of slacking at the start of the year, something the Washington Capitals learned from their playoff streak ending.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
“When are you going to stop slacking off?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
The rain was slacking and we were moving along.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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