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Paramount-Warner Bros. would still lag behind Google’s YouTube, Netflix, Disney and Amazon in streaming television viewership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Wisdom teeth provide another example of evolutionary lag.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

It expects dry weather to tighten palm oil supply, with the full impact on fresh fruit bunch yields likely to emerge in 2027 due to the crop’s biological lag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

And he also sees semis as possibly “the latest commodity to boom this year,” drawing what for bulls may be a worrying comparison to the performance of silver stocks — though with a four-month lag.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Dede catches my eye, smiling only after a lag of a second, for we have to seem pleased.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Until now, though, enzymatic methods have lagged far behind conventional manufacturing in the number of DNA sequences they can produce simultaneously.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

As paychecks lagged, real wages fell—down 3.6% over the year ending in June 2022—and the federal minimum wage reached its lowest real value since 1956.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Since the inception of Meta Superintelligence Labs last year, the company has released a new Muse Spark model but has still lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

The southwestern region of Honam -- a traditional liberal stronghold encompassing Gwangju and the Jeolla provinces -- has long lagged behind the more industrialised southeast.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

“The man we saw on the ground probably lagged behind the other workers and didn’t hear the foreman tell them to stop. He might have worked all night, getting thirstier and thirstier—” “Stop!” shrilled Matt.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Microsoft’s video game division plans to eliminate 3,200 jobs, or around 20% of its staff over the next year, as part of a sweeping reorganization to revive the company’s lagging games division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Thursday's data showed that average hourly earnings for US workers increased by 3.5 percent over the year, lagging behind inflation by 0.7 percentage points.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Axon’s share price fell 6% last year, severely lagging behind the S&P 500, which analysts attributed in part to wider concerns about AI disrupting the software industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit predicts that, based on current planning rates, Wales will only meet 10% of its target by 2030, "lagging behind" other devolved nations.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Yes, there, far to the south, that could only be Swordfish, lagging as ever.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin