lag behind
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“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
All of these efforts aim to make up for a persistent lag behind Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, which dominate the race for cutting-edge AI models.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Europeans keep about a third of their financial assets in cash or bank accounts, earning low interest rates that can lag behind inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Its ratings consistently lag behind those of its competitors’.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
For example, the Korean steel industry is equal in efficiency to ours, but all other Korean industries lag behind their American counterparts.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
