lag
Example Sentences
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Official data has a seven-week lag and would not have come through in time for the Senedd election on 7 May.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Tapestry surged 137% and Ralph Lauren 86% over the last year, while some European luxury names like Ferrari lag.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
Its ratings consistently lag behind those of its competitors’.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
The continuing-claims data lag the initial-claims filings by a week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
But the new scale, the more modern analytical device, had been there already; no lag had existed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing lag
A Long Walk to Water
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"The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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