dead time

Example Sentences

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“It’s cut out a lot of dead time, there’s not a lot of waiting around, it’s what fans say they want,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2023

The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time over four decades and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Mr Gidney, principal dentist at a practice in Monmouthshire which has 7,000 patients, said the "dead time" was limiting how many non-urgent patients they could see and creating a "bottleneck" in the system.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2021

For a rapidly changing game, there is nothing to lose by creatively trying to generate more action and reduce dead time.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2021

In the dead time between Saturday night and Sunday morning, she called me.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson