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Recent Examples of time lag
In my film, this cultural time lag is illustrated through the phenomenon of stage diving — when a performer jumps into the crowd to be carried by the audience.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
The researchers from Fudan University’s State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems and the College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-nano Electronics aimed to overcome this time lag by embedding 2D flash technology directly into CMOS platforms.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
That lapse is likely driven because of time lags between actual sales and assessments, Kaegi’s office said, an issue that gets worse when market values are increasing faster.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Some critics say the ratings are not very accurate because of a time lag between the data collection and the publication of the scores, and some say the ratings are unfair to hospitals that have low income populations that tend to be sicker than hospitals in wealthier areas.
—Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
The researchers from Fudan University’s State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems and the College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-nano Electronics aimed to overcome this time lag by embedding 2D flash technology directly into CMOS platforms.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
That lapse is likely driven because of time lags between actual sales and assessments, Kaegi’s office said, an issue that gets worse when market values are increasing faster.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Some critics say the ratings are not very accurate because of a time lag between the data collection and the publication of the scores, and some say the ratings are unfair to hospitals that have low income populations that tend to be sicker than hospitals in wealthier areas.
—Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
Noun
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The burglars pried open a window to get into a room on the second floor.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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Darci Ascaridis, the victim’s wife, testified Tuesday that her husband had been shining a flashlight from a window and yelling that the beach was closed after hearing noise from the shore.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But scaling the effort has been difficult as the technology requires lots of computing power to achieve realism and avoid a lag in interactions with users.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
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Like some ghastly old lag, ransacking the plans of a bank vault!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.—
Mark Glende,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 2026
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Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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But established turf needs to be watered at semi-regular intervals, and this will depend on the turf species.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
11 Apr. 2026
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The interval between mowing would be longer to allow the turf to grow that extra inch.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
10 Apr. 2026
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday Ukraine is ready to mirror any ceasefire steps, having earlier proposed to Russia a pause in attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Leon, in issuing the temporary pause, concluded that the preservationist group behind the legal challenge was likely to succeed because the president lacks the authority to build the ballroom without approval from Congress.—
Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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By combining the material with airy grasses and perennials, Grace has designed a soft-looking, drought-tolerant space that's also easygoing.—
Elizabeth Jardina,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Apr. 2026
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On many systems, deleting them merely removes their addresses from a registry, freeing the space to be overwritten.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Brian Stone, the NSF’s chief of staff, has since performed the duties of director in the interim.—
Fiona Bork,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2026
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The team has had five lead executives and nine head coaches — including interims — in that span.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia—that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body.—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Sep. 2020
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“Time lag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20lag. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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