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He expressed frustration with a perceived lag in the arrival of aid while the nation celebrated Independence Day with pomp and ceremony in the capital Jakarta.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Put together, we see Honeywell’s growth continuing to lag its peers. While the valuation is relatively inexpensive, we fear that this could be a value trap,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even relatively small differences between weekday and weekend schedules may create what researchers often call social jet lag.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Sea temperatures tend to lag behind air temperatures, Bunney says.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

She didn’t answer for a few seconds, and I thought maybe she didn’t hear me, but it was just the phone lag.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

JPMorgan found that the U.S. healthcare sector has lagged behind the S&P 500 every year since the ChatGPT artificial intelligence model was first launched almost four years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Since 1990, you would have lagged a buy-and-hold strategy by 2.9 annualized percentage points by mechanically following this simple strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The surge in sales—which more than doubled on-quarter—is underpinned by zircon and synthetic rutile volumes, while rutile lagged, MS says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

I asked Krishna if the shift, presumably under way for years, lagged behind his expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

As we hurried toward the Metro, I lagged behind.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

South Korea is also investing in American shipbuilding, which the White House has identified as an area in which the U.S. has been lagging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

Last week, fresh official data showed wage growth coming in at 3.2 percent year-on-year, lagging inflation and meaning that most people were seeing their income shrink in real terms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

“As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we’d never get nothing done.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster