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lag

Definition for lag

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If detection lag time is 10 days, then that, plus a healthy margin, should be the “deferral” period.

And best of all, no TSA and no jet lag (although we make no guarantees against a next-day hangover).

Was there a long lag between those tapes and the tapes released more recently?

Breastfeeding rates for black women have risen but still lag far behind those for white and Hispanic mothers.

About 50 percent of clients use the I.V. Doc for other things—stomach bugs and jet lag, for example.

Owing to its inertia, it would thus tend continually to lag behind the particles of matter about it.

Ecclesiastical is ever wont to lag somewhat in the rear of political improvement.

I was living in Lambeth at the house of an old lag, who practically took nobody but crooks as lodgers.

While he was urging on one part of the herd, the others would lag by the wayside and begin to graze.

They invariably keep up, and oftener come out ahead than they lag behind.

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On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lag, such as: decrease, diminish, fail, fall off, falter, and slacken.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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