time lag

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Recent Examples of time lag Adding to the Fed’s difficulty is uncertainty about the time lags in monetary policy. Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024 That is precisely the feeling Headland wanted audiences to have with the ending of her own series, a feeling that does compound in power over the time lag of a weekly release. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 July 2024 Most of the indicators used to gauge the health of the service industry are released with considerable time lags. Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2016 In other words, the Reagan-era tax cuts and deregulation did not spur productivity growth, even allowing for a time lag. Edward Conard, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013 See all Example Sentences for time lag 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
Noun
  • His initial return timeline of December-January is now all but out the window.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • By this stage, others on the plane had become concerned and the pilot stopped the plane, left the cockpit and walked down the aisle to look out the window.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Producers can't just start producing eggs again if there's quite a bit of a lag.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Automotive experts have noted that the user interface GM offers customers lags behind CarPlay in usability and appearance.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The only difference between that ominous sentence and the one that originally appeared in the paper on Oct. 18, 1924, is the comma that now separates the two halves.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In response to Melissa McCarthy posting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram, Streisand asked the question on everyone’s mind, without even using a comma to separate the independent clause.
    Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hamas has now released a total of 16 Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, of a total of 33 promised at staggered intervals during this stage.
    Michael Rios, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Complete 3-4 intervals, each four minutes long, with a 3-4 minute recovery in between.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Not done yet Martin Truex Jr. has put his retirement on pause for another shot at the Daytona 500.
    Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2025
  • On Friday, a judge prevented the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, on administrative leave, after a pause on all new U.S. foreign assistance programs funded by the State Department and USAID the week prior.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Those getting space include outlets with a long history of favorable coverage of Donald Trump — One America News Network and Breitbart News Network, as well as the New York Post, which leans right.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • McDaniels was canned in his second season as the Broncos boss, but Thewes remained, becoming a trusted, stabilizing force for eight more coaches (counting interims) and three general managers.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, is seen in multiple views in the approximately 10-15 minute interim between his two hearings at Blair County Court in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 19, 2024 in a courtroom sketch.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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 13 Feb. 2025.

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