dead time
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In January — that is, during the NFL, NBA and NHL seasons but in a dead time for MLB — Ipsos polled 1,035 American adults and asked whether they were fans of 13 sports.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023
The clock would address baseball’s most infuriating dead time — hitters wandering away from home plate during an at-bat, as though puzzling about Fermat’s Last Theorem.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022
Games also tend to be interminable and choppy, with far too much dead time between the thrills.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Mr Gidney, principal dentist at a practice in Monmouthshire which has 7,000 patients, said the "dead time" was limiting how many non-urgent patients they could see and creating a "bottleneck" in the system.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2021
In the dead time between Saturday night and Sunday morning, she called me.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
