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Examples of straggler
straggler
Colds do that to you-they make you a hopeless, inefficient, hesitant, straggler.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
An artist's time series shows two stars colliding to form a blue straggler star.
From the sciencedaily.com
The picture at right shows the 42 blue straggler candidates circled in green.
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What hurt Burbank were two forfeit losses, including one to Metro straggler Johnson.
From the sacbee.com
The straggler was Lohse, who had his season interrupted for forearm surgery.
From the stltoday.com
He's even worked out alone some days in hopes there'd be a straggler or two.
From the tennessean.com
By one in the morning, the last straggler had packed up his laptop and wandered out.
From the nytimes.com
The Hubble Telescope captures blue straggler stars in the Milky Way bulge.
From the theepochtimes.com
Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M30.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Someone who strays or falls behind
- One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; One who falls behind the rest; One who rambles without any settled direction; A roving vagabond; Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth; ...
- (stragglers) Bass that remain behind following a general migration.
- (Stragglers) Term used when a school of fish move and a few stay behind.
- (JP 1-02, NATO) - Any personnel, vehicles, ships, or aircraft which, without apparent purpose or assigned mission, become separated from their unit, column or formation.
- The last lone checker heading for home.
- A rear-most checker move into the home board that is stalled because of an opposing checker.
- Fighter too damaged to keep up with the main formation
