lag
Example Sentences
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The speed Cerebras offers can be very valuable for AI workloads that can’t afford any time lag, like certain types of coding.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But year-over-year measures lag; they blend today’s momentum with price changes from 12 months ago, obscuring whether inflation is accelerating right now.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Or a software mean reversion can take the ETF higher, while chips lag, and vice versa.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
Teskey also highlighted a recovery in certain segments of the real-estate market, such as hospitality, logistics and residential property, while office and retail continue to lag.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Those factors seem to me to account for the Americas’ technological lag behind Eurasia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing lag
A Long Walk to Water
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"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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