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Recent Examples of time lag
That multiyear time lag in the analogy reflects the yoctosecond time lag between the collision and your ability to capture it, correct?
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Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
From a tactical perspective, the time lag between exposure and symptoms has limited the utility of biological weapons on a battlefield.
—Kate Charlet, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
These days, there is little to no time lag between making environmental commitments, doing the work to deliver on them and reporting on your progress.
—Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Estimation of the time lags from historical data is confounded by structural changes in the economy.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
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Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
From a tactical perspective, the time lag between exposure and symptoms has limited the utility of biological weapons on a battlefield.
—Kate Charlet, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
These days, there is little to no time lag between making environmental commitments, doing the work to deliver on them and reporting on your progress.
—Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Estimation of the time lags from historical data is confounded by structural changes in the economy.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
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Suspicious Package Detonated in ‘Controlled Explosion’ Outside U.S. Embassy in London, Say Police Photos from the blast show several storefronts and vehicles damaged from the impact, with the windows blown off.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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There is room to walk around in transit, and the windows are large enough to take pictures during the journey.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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Recent citywide crime The number of offenses reported for the most recent two weeks (after omitting the most recent week of available data to control for reporting lags) compared with the number reported for the two weeks before that.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
1 May 2025
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The lag owes in part to the nature of contracts between businesses and egg suppliers, which often lock in prices for weeks, experts said.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2025
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Gemini took care with its enjambment, carefully crafting stanzas, but didn’t use punctuation outside of periods and commas.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
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Note that there is no comma—no Oxford comma, that is, beloved of this publication and often scorned elsewhere—before the conjunction.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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In lab simulations of the stomach environment, the capsule released doses at staggered intervals.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
2 May 2025
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While cake is still warm, use the blunt end of a wooden skewer to poke holes all over the surface of the cake at about 1/2-inch intervals.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2025
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And sometimes, a pause that lingers a moment longer than expected can speak louder than any update.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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After a five-year pause enacted by President Trump in March 2020.—
Ben Abrams,
NPR,
2 May 2025
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Sagittarius Shuhua Xiong Full Moon in Scorpio on May 12: Clear space for spiritual honesty.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
8 May 2025
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Because it’s raised, there’s plenty of space underneath to stash boxes of extra linens and out-of-season clothes.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
8 May 2025
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Two months after the court hearing, Anderson-Barker wrote to Feldstein Soto, copying Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and UCLA interim Chancellor Darnell Hunt asking that the phones be returned to the students.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Sarah Boese, a deputy administrator, has filed a separate complaint alleging unethical conduct and political retaliation for the board's refusal to consider her for the job and choosing Marasco as the interim, the Register reports.—
Jason Clayworth,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2021
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“Time lag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20lag. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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