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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

Jeremy Jacquet: Made a goal-saving challenge to deny Igor Jesus an early goal and was impressive but still had a few moments where he was slack and lacked discipline.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

It continued to smoke vigorously even after it struck the slack.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

DB, a slacker pool cleaner with eyes the same cerulean shade as the chlorinated body of water he tends to with an almost religious ecstasy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Not a slacker goof-off, but a good goof-off.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

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

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

Six of our best men give in rotation two hours a day to it at the time when work and the machines are slackest.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Hilton arrived like he was ready to party in Hermosa Beach, in a black open-collar shirt that was either seersucker or unironed, dark blue slacks and white Adidas with orange ombre stripes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

Allen wore a black dress shirt and slacks, a red tie tucked into his pants and a small leather bag prosecutors say was filled with ammunition.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

Grandpop was wearing a white V-neck T-shirt tucked into a pair of navy-blue slacks.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds

“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

If teammates slacked off in practice after partying late, he’d shoot them extra hard puck passes.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

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

“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

But he was slacking off and took no personal interest in me.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos