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

“What was really removed from the game was that dead time — pitchers walking around the mound, batters fixing their batting gloves, taking extra pitches in the bullpen, walking in from there.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

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

For a rapidly changing game, there is nothing to lose by creatively trying to generate more action and reduce dead time.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 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