dead time

Example Sentences

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“It’s cut out a lot of dead time, there’s not a lot of waiting around, it’s what fans say they want,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 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

Offense shot up across the board, the theory being that with better rhythm and less dead time, hitters were more attuned to the action and performed better.

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 summer it was the tiempo muerto, the dead time, and the campesinos barely escaped starvation.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García