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Refiners in Nigeria also picked up some of the slack.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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

Chief Executive Liz Westcott said the review reflected a shift in international policy positions and slack demand for lower carbon ammonia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

Luke didn’t miss how he tried to keep his face from going slack too.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

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

He believed that if he didn't return to Germany, he would be considered "unpatriotic" and a "slacker."

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

Parley, indeed, it was well known, was always talking, which exposed him to no small danger; for as he was the foremost to promise, so he was the slackest to perform.

From Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by Hannah More

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

She had, with a strenuous loyalty, kept in touch through the years: calling and writing letters and sending books and shapeless trousers she called slacks.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

In the visitor’s locker room, Gaines, his face slacked with sweat and his hair matted, closed the door to parents and fans and drew the players around him.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

I’ve heard it repeatedly from experts: The greatest risk of working out alone is bad form, leading to inefficient movement, slacking off and higher chance of injury.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 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

“When are you going to stop slacking off?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Due to a slowing economy and slacking advertising revenue, newsrooms have been slashed across the industry.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

And if I ain’t fired, then I need to clean that bathroom so Mister Johnny doesn’t think the secret maid is slacking and fire me a second time.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett