time lag

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Recent Examples of time lag 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 Adding to the Fed’s difficulty is uncertainty about the time lags in monetary policy. Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for time lag
Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
Noun
  • McDonald’s performance opens a window onto the grandmothers and great-grandmothers whose lives were even more tragically curtailed.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
  • So, to have the resources from the commercial project felt like a window was open for a very short period of time.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Alex Condon beat me at 2K, but the input lag on the TV was going on.
    Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Though this latter feature presumably increases the TVs’ input lag, and so likely won’t be a good option to activate for fast-reaction games such as Call Of Duty.
    John Archer, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Dover Street Market, which sits on the border of the NoMad and Murray Hill neighborhoods, is a seven-floor retail oasis of hypebeast brands, exclusive collaborations and runway-level looks with prices that have commas.
    Gerald Narciso, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The latter outlines their technology stack and even affirms a corporate commitment to the Oxford comma.
    Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The closure had prompted bigger queues — at one stage 100 people that had left the game during the interval were waiting and some gave up and got taxis home.
    Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Not only was that the natural way to tell the story from his perspective as a narrator, aware of the tragic events, but that was also a way to grab the audience’s attention, hence his decision as well to insert reminders of the tragedy through the voice over at various intervals.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And with Russia’s Vladimir Putin failing to agree to a full pause in the fighting with Ukraine, signs point to a continuing war and uncertain American support for Ukraine.
    Ella Polak, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The pandemic provided a reprieve for millions of student loan borrowers, as stimulus checks and payment pauses allowed many of them to bring down their balances.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Designed to be a lush, year-round oasis, this innovative space combines design elements inspired by Portland’s urban charm and tropical island retreats, bringing a slice of paradise to the city during the (in)famous Pacific Northwest rainy season.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Give them space to take risks while aligning their work with significant objectives.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Firing Daboll, however, would have meant the Giants would have had, not including interims, their fifth head coach in 10 seasons.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Earnest Rouse was the interim who filled in when Schulte resigned.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • 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 3 Apr. 2025.

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