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The character is underwritten but Jolie picks up much of the slack through her silently shattered expression.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

He needs to repay the slack that allowed him a full Indian Premier League stint.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Still, Wall Street seems to be willing to cut Warsh some slack as he tries to sort through things.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Whether they spend weekends at a high-end golf club or taking low-cost hikes could provide clues about how much slack they typically have in their monthly budget.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Boaz jerkily rose to his feet, and after a moment’s thought, Ashmodai conjured a rope between them, tethering them together by the wrists, with only a yard of slack.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

My backstory was that they lived in New York — he was trying to get in a band, it didn’t really happen for him, he was kind of a slacker.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

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

Some of the plot is just unnecessary padding, like Daniel’s girlfriend troubles and slacker mentality, spiking in an odd scene where he hysterically bemoans his own uselessness.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Despite Wallinger working as the musical director for Ben Stiller’s 1994 slacker romantic comedy “Reality Bites,” World Party was among the artists swept away by the alternative rock explosion of the early 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

In the weeks before Christmas, when retail sales are usually at their highest, retailers were cutting prices as though it were slackest of seasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is brave, but he is reckless, and the discipline of his troop is of the slackest.

From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

A styling group stores troves of neutral tone crew and V-neck sweaters, button-down shirts, slacks and extra pairs of the Silver Lining Opticians “Carbon” glasses at an off-site building, current and former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

It was a blur of champagne, full sized In-N-Out cheeseburgers, chic ushers wearing Dior uniforms with snug grey sweaters and slacks that pooled perfectly at the leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

“Yeah, yeah. Your mother always slacks up on you when I go overseas. Give me the ones you know.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Much of the rest of the world, no doubt, slacked its collective jaw, and many American servicemen and servicewomen must have been ashamed.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025

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

"We were just active on defense. When they had their runs, we slacked off," Brooks said.

From Fox News ● Nov. 19, 2021

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

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

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

Still, he has a dream to chase and he’s not going to catch it by slacking off.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

It’s crazy, but instead of that whole experience pushing me to train even harder, I began slacking off in practice.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles