dead time
Example Sentences
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“But it cuts down on the stress. The dead time is actually sitting behind the wheel. I can read, do some work or just relax on the bus. It’s more productive and less frustrating.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
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
A pitch clock would eliminate much of the dead time caused when hitters step out of the batter’s box and pitchers back off the mound and take deep breaths on the infield grass.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
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
In the summer it was the tiempo muerto, the dead time, and the campesinos barely escaped starvation.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
