tardy
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She says states accepted tardy mail ballots amid World War I, while seven authorized the practice during the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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
In “Back to the Future,” Tolkan portrayed Vice Principal Gerald Strickland, who surveyed the school’s halls with a whistle around his neck and a tardy slip burning a hole in his pocket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 2025
Turns out tardy is some dumb, fancy way of saying late.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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
What if the coolness of our tardier veins Be loss of virtue? 1ST CITIZEN.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
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
It is true that a geometer, too, works for the public weal; but the process is tardier, and we may well pardon an impatience that sprung of reasoned zeal for the happiness of mankind.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley
"Your heels are tardier now than they were at Worcester!"
From The Pigeon Pie by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
A month soon passes, even at its tardiest pace.
From The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens
Her throat was bare, and her dusky hair was a shade dishevelled, and in her meditative eyes he caught the flicker of her tardiest dream just as it vanished.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
But Meriones, stout squire of Idomeneus, came in a spear-throw behind famous Menelaos, for tardiest of all were his sleek-coated horses, and slowest he himself to drive a chariot in the race.
From The Iliad by Homer
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