tardy

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Regulators said when they filed the case that his tardy filing allowed him to spend less to buy up Twitter’s shares, saving him more than $150 million on the investment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Teachers accepted tardy excuses from parents of students stuck in gas lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025

He handed in his forged tardy note, all the while muttering Stupid stupid stupid under his breath.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The next morning he slept over; was tardier at his desk than he has almost ever been, arriving shortly after ten.

From Time Magazine Archive

Science accounts for this sensation by supposing that one half of the brain, more agile than another, jumps to its conclusion before its tardier fellow can arrive.

From Audrey Craven by May Sinclair

A few early lights already dotted its expanse with gold, as if to outspeed the tardier stars overhead.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

There is, however, this difference, that in some ages these evils last longer than in others, the wounds are deeper, the victims more numerous, the intermissions less frequent, the relief tardier, the survivors fewer.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

How does the presence of few tameable animals in the New World help to account for its tardier development as compared with the Old World?

From Early European History by Hutton Webster

TAP Air Portugal is one of the tardiest of airlines.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023

The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why is it that we see there both the dawn of civilization and the tardiest development of human progress?

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord

Each waited long before his opportunity came; each learned that the "tardiest of the immortals are the boon Hours."

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

America has been the tardiest among all the industrial nations to undertake this kind of social reform.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter