lag behind
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Sea temperatures tend to lag behind air temperatures, Bunney says.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
It just has to lag behind the most fevered forecasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“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
Those factors seem to me to account for the Americas’ technological lag behind Eurasia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
