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Bowie could have tarried longer on the glam-rock bandwagon he had helped create, but he changed yet again on 1975’s Young Americans.

From Time • Jan. 17, 2016

So, too, the Irish government has moved swiftly to balance its books while others have tarried.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2011

Simpson burns, but they have tarried near the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not so surprising: Burroughs may have tarried in the circles of personal and political hell, but the no-nonsense Midwest still adheres to his blunt, declarative, police-blotter prose and reverberates in his croaking iconoclastic voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

A trusty friend at Gibraltar promised to send them, but they have tarried many weeks: but now to dispose of this treasure.’ 

From A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain by Wise, Thomas James