laggard

Example Sentences

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The stock has been a significant tech-sector laggard over the past year and now is on track to further its underperformance.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026

It’s an unexpected reversal of fortunes for the iPhone maker, whose stock has otherwise underperformed over the past year due to its reputation for being an artificial-intelligence laggard.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

Bricks-and-mortar retail, long viewed as a laggard in China’s tech story, is also becoming an AI beneficiary.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

Amazon developed a reputation as an artificial-intelligence laggard due to what investors perceived as lackluster growth in its cloud-computing business.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

Earl Percy and his laggard brigade were gone.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes