dead time
Example Sentences
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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
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 dead time between Saturday night and Sunday morning, she called me.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
