lag
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Soon after the research began circulating, I focused one my columns on a list of 22 stocks that the study would have concluded were good bets to lag the market in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Specialty lamps are already sold for other biological purposes, including helping people cope with disruptions to natural circadian rhythms such as jet lag.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Minutes of the meeting, released after a routine three-week lag, showed that "many" of their peers "assessed that policy tightening would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Uncertainty surrounding negotiations between Iran and Oman over the Strait of Hormuz is adding volatility, while storage levels lag behind last year, with EU facilities 59% full.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Because of the time lag in communications, the general prisoners probably did not learn of our participation for a day or so.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Google’s artificial-intelligence research unit is set to release a new model with significantly upgraded coding capabilities, according to employees, potentially shoring up an area where the company has lagged behind competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Hot, jet lagged and lost, they started complaining about how they had managed to get the wrong address.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
On the other hand, large value funds tied to other benchmarks, which had lower exposure to the hottest memory stocks, lagged behind iShares Russell 1000 Value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Its year-over-year sales growth has lagged behind capital-expeditures growth by a much wider margin than usual, noted a team of BofA strategists led by Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 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
More than 80 performers have signed the letter, with Derry Girls actor Siobhán McSweeney saying she was "deeply worried" that the government was lagging behind.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Offshore wind power, a complement to solar because it blows overnight, is lagging in California in the face of powerful political opposition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
An Emerson College poll on Thursday found Talarico slightly lagging among Black voters compared to Texas Democrats’ nominee for governor.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meta is currently lagging behind in the AI race and trying to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI, which have the most advanced AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Sales were definitely lagging behind last year and so was the money.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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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