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He said there is less slack in the economy relative to a year ago, and expects the remaining spare capacity to be absorbed during the next two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Given rising equity supply, though, markets need household demand for U.S. equities to pick up the slack, despite the volatility Chapman identifies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

This “compromised the city’s initial and extended response, and further compromised the region” as other fire departments picked up the slack, the report found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

It was true that I had a slight cold and felt a little under the weather, but Aimee wasn’t cutting me any slack.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 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

That night Dr. Marrigan told me that I was too smart to be a slacker faculty kid.

From "Wintergirls" 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 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

Drew was allowed to indulge in that slackest kind of writing, the day-by-day journal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Murnan neighbors, to whom late winter was the slackest season in the farm-year, visited often to observe and comment on the off-worlder's work.

From Blind Man's Lantern by George Luther Schelling

She ate alongside her employees, who were almost all decked out in black slacks and pink polo shirts bearing her firm’s name and its hummingbird logo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

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

Still, James insisted that headquarters employees dress a cut above business casual, requiring jackets and slacks for men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025

Instead of wearing sweatpants and sneakers like most coaches, one day Sam showed up in what looked like a pink zoot suit—pink slacks, pink shirt, pink fedora, and pink alligator shoes.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

“No one slacked off at all. Everyone just came in and worked hard. They just played a lot better than us. They were hitting on everything. It wasn’t our year.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

As time elapsed, Sand’s rate of production never slacked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

By the time it had slacked a good part of the day was gone.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

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

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 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

The rain was slacking and we were moving along.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway