lag
Example Sentences
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Even so, there’s still a lag impact of high energy prices on other categories, he warned, and the boom in artificial intelligence investment is causing supply-chain bottlenecks that will also put upward pressure on prices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The health insurance impact on young workers from AI disruption is likely to lag labor market trends, and “may not fully translate into employer-sponsored coverage loss” until 2028 to 2030, Barclays estimates.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
What the business press didn’t report was the timing of another issue much tighter than the three-year lag after the move.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
“There’s a lot of lag, and shock absorbers can only work for so long,” Halff said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
For all that, the pair did succeed in measuring the time lag of the photoelectric effect at about two billionths of a second.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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