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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In other words, your substance is dependent on your surroundings and on your place in a time line, and is therefore mutable.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
There is no estimated time line to open a new location.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
This shift would help people with the understanding of time lines around grief.
—Elizabeth Endicott, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Feller then sketched a time line of freezes based on citrus growers’ records, along with a map of hurricane paths.
—Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
There is no estimated time line to open a new location.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024
This shift would help people with the understanding of time lines around grief.
—Elizabeth Endicott, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Feller then sketched a time line of freezes based on citrus growers’ records, along with a map of hurricane paths.
—Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
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“Time line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20line. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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