dead time
Example Sentences
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In January — that is, during the NFL, NBA and NHL seasons but in a dead time for MLB — Ipsos polled 1,035 American adults and asked whether they were fans of 13 sports.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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
The clock would address baseball’s most infuriating dead time — hitters wandering away from home plate during an at-bat, as though puzzling about Fermat’s Last Theorem.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 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
Like you probably do, I productively fill the gaps that most people leave as dead time.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
