time lag

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Recent Examples of time lag 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 The researchers have already developed and begun testing several different versions of sweat sensors beyond the one described last week; a consequence of the time lag between publishing research results and making progress in the lab. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2016 See All Example Sentences for time lag
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Noun
  • At Trinity, an LGBTQ banner hangs in the front window.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While there was a launch story to tell at IFA, as the Galaxy Tab S11 tablets debuted alongside it, the earlier release offers a longer sales window.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While tethers on ROVs to share information with those on the surface are typically made of copper, the material could only withstand 300 feet depths before camera footage starts to experience lag, ultimately affecting the vehicle’s control.
    Amelia Wu, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Gaming feels snappy thanks to super-low input lag, so fast shooters or sports titles respond instantly.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 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
  • Cooking by weight would fix this, but since volume is the American default, the comma denotes an important difference.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Older research suggests that short intervals of green exercise—particularly low- or moderate-intensity—resulted in self-esteem improvements.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Cianfrance also spent years talking with the real Jeff Manchester from prison in the 15-minute intervals allowed in an effort to do justice to the story, and that level of research pays off.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This pause led to a more strategic decision that ultimately benefited the company.
    Naz Beheshti, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Job hopping has hit a pause as employees who might have left their companies previously are no longer able to find higher wages, according to a recent report from Bank of America.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By now, many of you have heard that The Courier Journal is moving out of our historic office building and into a new space closer to the river this week.
    Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Stradivarius and Pull&Bear both moved to larger spaces, and the group also debuted its first Bershka store.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here's more on what needs to happen in Lansing, and what teachers are doing in the interim.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chicago Public Schools interim CEO Macquline King has presented the most responsible budget possible under current conditions, especially considering the strong influence of the Chicago Teachers Union and a mayor committed to prioritizing union interests over all other considerations.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 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 16 Sep. 2025.

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