time lag

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for time lag
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Noun
  • His high-end ability has materialized in moments far more consequential than the two-month window of regular-season games used to canonize All-Stars.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The race ran so long Fox had to bump it to the lower-tier FS2 channel; the event eclipsed the three-hour window to run 50 miles.
    Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Comparing California’s school support to that of other states is difficult because there’s always a lag in data collection.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Advancements in technology had reduced their size, increased their broadcast capabilities and reduced the lag time in transmitting shots via RF signals to broadcast trucks.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Starmer, a former human-rights lawyer, approaches every problem with an arid obsession with process rather than outcome—as if, when people follow every dot and comma of the rules, nothing bad can happen and no one should complain.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Here is a mom falling over cackling at the comma-rich DM her extremely funny daughter, Mandy Brooke, sent to Lil Wayne.
    Julie Klausner, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, the GOAT of cross-country skiing, won his eighth lifetime gold for Norway by winning the men’s 10-kilometer interval start free.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The bike maker is also expected to extend service intervals beyond the MX and EDX’s demanding 15-hour oil changes and 45-hour piston replacement schedules.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Funding was eventually restored after a series of lawsuits challenging payment pauses, eligibility requirements, and requests from the federal government for sensitive citizen data.
    Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That pause in dopamine release signals a failure in reward arrival, a new kind of prediction error.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Mrigakshi is a science journalist who enjoys writing about space exploration, biology, and technological innovations.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The hotel’s outdoor lawn and event space has quickly become a hot wedding venue—nearly every weekend in the summer and fall was booked up.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The idea of an external interim, new to the club, new to the league, represents a leap into the dark for everyone involved.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Garcia also served as the interim for a few months that same year before Vanderpool began the job in September.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
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 20 Feb. 2026.

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