time lag

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Recent Examples of time lag Although this policy assumption will tend to ameliorate GDP deceleration, monetary policy acts with a significant time lag. Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 Flying home from a successful tour finale in Vancouver last year with a decent time lag before the season began was seen as ideal. Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 May 2025 According to her research, traditional fashion weeks lead to overproduction, and the time lag between the reveal of designs during traditional fashion weeks and availability leads to a disconnect that alienates young generations. Miles Socha, Footwear News, 27 Mar. 2025 Having the FPVs with the assault troops cuts that time lag to seconds. David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for time lag
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Noun
  • One is the Elliot Anderson room and the other, where the window opens towards the first-team campus a couple of fields away, is the Lewis Miley room.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Even as the young man attempts to ignore the din of city life outside his window, his fear of losing his vanity is ultimately what disrupts his fantasies.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Until measured inflation catches up to actual market rents, there’s a significant lag, and that lag is finally closed.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • While Israeli officials had anticipated some logistical lag, families of the dead expressed frustration that only four of the 28 bodies had been repatriated as of Monday.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Pressing the comma key takes you to the start of an item, such as a large table or long list, while pressing the period key takes you to the end.
    Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Compared to its shorter-interval workouts, for example, the Norwegian 4x4 is especially effective at raising VO2 max and, in turn, at building endurance, experts previously told SELF.
    Marissa Gold, SELF, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In a viral video, fitness coach Eugene Teo explains this method of interval-style walking, which involves alternating between walking fast for three minutes and walking slow for three minutes, for five sets in half an hour.
    Marisa McMillan, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The American president was in his element, often departing from prepared remarks in an address that extended for an hour in front of a crowd that was more than happy to applaud at every pause.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes, a long pause in stalking behavior is a tactic designed to create more fear by allowing the victim to drop their guard before restarting the behavior, said Aims Babich, director of survivor services at SafeHouse Denver, an emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Flexible, adaptable, and capable of navigating spaces once unreachable, these robots are designed to move like living organisms, transforming how doctors perform surgeries or how engineers inspect machinery.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • With Newcastle an incredibly disciplined side, Trossard was caught on the ball in a dangerous position in front of his defenders at one point, but the aim seemed to be to have him in a free role that would create space for other players out wide.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the last dozen years, the school has had five presidents (including interims) with varying interest in sports.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Not the official interim Barnes will serve in the position for 30 days, McGee said.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • 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 19 Oct. 2025.

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