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While urging listeners to be diligent about checkups, Ferguson admitted that she had been procrastinating until her sister insisted she get her mammogram as soon as possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2023

So the New Man’s journey has begun in earnest, and with a bit of a jolt – though to be fair, he had been procrastinating for a while.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2018

He had been procrastinating so long, putting off going, on one pretext or another, that he had fallen into a sort of fear of going.

From The Golden House by Warner, Charles Dudley

That fish, however, who had been procrastinating, foolish and senseless and without intelligence as he was, and, therefore, unable to escape, met with death.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan