time line
noun
1
: a table listing important events for successive years within a particular historical period
2
usually timeline
: a schedule of events and procedures : timetable sense 2
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Powers drew inspiration for the story’s shifting time lines from the double-helix structure of DNA.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Most of it doesn’t come due for another 15 years — some of it is even on a 40-year time line.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
Metro is no stranger to cost overruns, construction delays and other roadblocks that stretch project time lines.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
There were other irregularities in the time line of the silencer’s discovery.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Most of it doesn’t come due for another 15 years — some of it is even on a 40-year time line.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
Metro is no stranger to cost overruns, construction delays and other roadblocks that stretch project time lines.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
There were other irregularities in the time line of the silencer’s discovery.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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“Time line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20line. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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