lazy
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But when the government’s arguments are this lazy, it is functionally impossible for Saylor to not at least implicitly acknowledge just how bad the idea is.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The lazy hazy days of summer may feel like a distant memory as September shifts our energy back to business and forward to new adventures.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
I wrote an entire book about AI, and yet I’ve been too lazy to leverage its full power in my personal life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
To label mothers who struggle as lazy and selfish is also to concede that raising kids requires hard work and sacrifice.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Gupta isn’t paying you to chat with your lazy son.”
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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We label those who outsource their work to AI as lazier and less moral, and we think they value their work less than those who don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A 2025 Duke University study found that professionals believed that colleagues would consider them lazier and less competent if they used A.I., making them unlikely to disclose its use.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Use her ajvar recipe without adjustment, or opt for my lazier route, and stash containers of lutenitsa in the freezer.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
A lazier filmmaker might merely have put them back together to play their greatest hits.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks’ tests.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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While charging a $1 annual fee may discourage the laziest bot-makers, it surely won’t prevent anyone with a real incentive—financial, political, or otherwise—to manipulate the platform for their own personal gain.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2023
If he loses, they say he overthinks, the laziest word ever to be used about Guardiola's work.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023
Adding co-op is like finishing any dish with chili oil — it’s the laziest way to make the most unimaginatively cooked proteins pretty tasty.
From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2022
She and the news crews are all playing the same game, in the laziest and most inane manner possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021
Red Rabbit was without a doubt the laziest, slowest horse in the demon land.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The New York Stock Exchange tape lazied along: about 120,000 shares an hour, 610,000 shares for the full session.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I never lazied around so or frittered up so much time in my life; and I'm enjoying every second of my freedom, too.
From The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story by Arthur William Brown
I was in the merriest humour, and lazied about the whole afternoon through the most frequented streets and looked at the people.
From Hunger by Knut Hamsun
We lazied the rest of the pleasant afternoon away, some dozing under the trees, some smoking cob-pipes and talking sweethearts and war, some playing games.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His head felt heavy and kind of funny, but he didn't think that lazying around on the pier would be harmful.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
So we would put in the day, lazying around, listening to the stillness.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
An ambulance driver came lazying around the corner and began to start his car.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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