time lag

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Recent Examples of time lag Somewhere between all these time lags and misconceptions, our attitude to and relationship with the United States has changed. Jessica Traynor, The Dial, 11 Nov. 2025 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 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
  • The painting’s gigantic walnut frame resembled a window set into a niche.
    Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • With his 20-day window to return from offseason shoulder surgery expiring on Sunday, the Yankees chose not to activate their starting shortstop of the last three seasons.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • There was noticeable and annoying lag and sluggishness in the Windows desktop and Windows Explorer, not even counting Chrome or Office, with apps taking some 10 seconds to even open.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Ken Foster, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, said there is typically a 3- to 6-month lag between an energy price shock and an increase in retail food prices.
    Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.
    Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • McCarthy has a deft way with crafting suspense in his script, leading with character first, planting conversational bombs that go off at intervals throughout the plot.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
  • McCarthy has a deft way with crafting suspense in his script, leading with character first, planting conversational bombs that go off at intervals throughout the plot.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Manny fields it, kind of checks and gets the pause, throws it to second.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • For savers, the Fed's ongoing rate pause has effectively preserved an unusually favorable rate environment, one where yields on certificates of deposit (CDs), high-yield savings accounts and money market accounts remain well above the long-term historical average.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • It is fitted out with a teaching kitchen, a podcast-production space, a large classroom called the Democracy in Action Lab, and a recording studio.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Jay Blackman Jay Blackman is an NBC News producer covering such areas as transportation, space, medical and consumer issues.
    Jay Blackman, NBC news, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • In the interim, Richard Westenberger will assume the responsibilities of CEO and president, in addition to his roles as chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • And Dombrowski will almost certainly offer Cora the job in the offseason; bench coach Don Mattingly only agreed to serve in the interim.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 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 9 May. 2026.

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