lag

This year’s results provide yet more evidence that, if you were to pick a mutual fund at random, the odds are high that you will lag a broad-market index fund.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

But he’d begun to rush the move, which caused his arm to lag behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Average hourly earnings for all employees were up 3.0 percent year-on-year, with wages continuing to lag behind stubbornly high inflation -- meaning most workers are seeing real wage losses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

It was unclear whether the refusal to admit some reporters on Thursday morning was because of an administrative lag as the White House potentially worked to comply with the judge's order.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

We woke the next morning in Nairobi to blue skies and fresh energy, less zonked by the jet lag and feeling like our happy, regular selves.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Driver earnings have lagged behind in Los Angeles, among the first cities to allow driverless Waymo taxis to compete for customers since 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

That’s a function of investors clamoring back into a narrow group of AI-driven technology stocks, which lifted the large-cap index to a fresh record earlier this week as other stocks lagged.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Before the ube craze, it was a niche market," he said, adding it had lagged behind high-value crops like bananas, mangoes and coffee.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

In the U.S., public will lagged behind private initiative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Sam looked back and found that Frodo had lagged again.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

He promised to replace Rikers with smaller facilities, but their construction is lagging behind schedule.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Yet beating the market was still difficult: The percentage of mutual funds lagging the S&P 500 was virtually no different in the first half of this year than the past 25 years’ average.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, the crisis has been aggravated by lagging salaries.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

This unfavorable futures-curve shape, plus the fund’s 0.9% fee, explains why the fund is up about 14% year to date, lagging behind copper futures by about 3 percentage points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

As they trudged on, he noticed that Renn was lagging behind.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver