Johnny-come-lately

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Recent Examples of Johnny-come-lately Johnny-come-lately botnet sets a new record At 30,000 devices, the Eleven11bot was already exceptionally large (although some botnets exceed well over 100,000 devices). Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025 The Hood proudly stands as an outlier, no Johnny-come-lately to contemporary Native art. Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 The Hood proudly stands as an outlier, no Johnny-come-lately to contemporary Native art. Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Johnny-come-lately
follower
Noun
  • On Instagram alone, both Life & Style and In Touch counted north of half a million followers in addition to robust websites.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
  • There, Rowling posts several times a day in support of gender fundamentalism to her 14 million-plus followers, frequently trading barbs with commenters—even fracturing her relationship with Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint—while toasting her own personal successes.
    Matt Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025

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“Johnny-come-lately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Johnny-come-lately. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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