lag
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Then volatility begins to lag, as the market generally rallies, or is at least complacent, into July.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Jorge Hernandez, director of spa and wellness at Capella Singapore, said the techniques trigger blood flow, support the lymphatic system and calm the nervous system—all helpful in the battle against jet lag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The attacking stats showed Hearts did not lag behind their Austrian hosts by any means.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“These databases will always lag behind innovation and can be easily circumvented and generate false positives that block legal designs and wrongly flag everyday makers,” she said at a Senate hearing this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Second, could a large part of the 5,000-year lag have represented the time that the first Americans required to become familiar with the new local plant species, animal species, and rock sources that they encountered?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Krishna acknowledged that IBM’s cultural transition has lagged his expectations, noting that such changes always take longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The lagged effect from high energy prices will probably lift inflation above 3.0 percent in September and to about 3.5 percent early next year," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Despite this year’s outperformance for the microcaps and small-cap stocks, they have lagged behind over five years, and their trailing price/sales valuations are much lower for ETFs tracking the smaller-cap indexes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
JimmyTrotter and I always lagged behind to talk about teenage things while keeping an eye on Vonetta and Fern.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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The Magnificent Seven are lagging too and AI hyperscaler Oracle closed at a multiyear low Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
US officials have warned that many allies were "lagging behind" on their pledge to spend 5% cent of GDP on the military by 2035, the paper reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
That partnership, and the subsequent planned acquisition, was SpaceX “effectively” conceding that its frontier model is lagging behind the pack, Granda said in a research note.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Apparently, the bodies made little impression on Herrod, however, for despite his lagging pace and the lateness of the hour he pressed onward to the top.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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A Long Walk to Water
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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