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Recent Examples of time lag
Adding to the Fed’s difficulty is uncertainty about the time lags in monetary policy.
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Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
That is precisely the feeling Headland wanted audiences to have with the ending of her own series, a feeling that does compound in power over the time lag of a weekly release.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
Most of the indicators used to gauge the health of the service industry are released with considerable time lags.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2016
In other words, the Reagan-era tax cuts and deregulation did not spur productivity growth, even allowing for a time lag.
—Edward Conard, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
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Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
That is precisely the feeling Headland wanted audiences to have with the ending of her own series, a feeling that does compound in power over the time lag of a weekly release.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 18 July 2024
Most of the indicators used to gauge the health of the service industry are released with considerable time lags.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2016
In other words, the Reagan-era tax cuts and deregulation did not spur productivity growth, even allowing for a time lag.
—Edward Conard, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time lag
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His initial return timeline of December-January is now all but out the window.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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By this stage, others on the plane had become concerned and the pilot stopped the plane, left the cockpit and walked down the aisle to look out the window.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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There’s a lag before those wholesale price hikes show up in the grocery store, says Karyn Rispoli, a managing editor at Expana.—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
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Because of a six-month lag in the way that 340B discounts work, clinics were hit by the change last July.—
Katie Thomas,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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In response to Melissa McCarthy posting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram, Streisand asked the question on everyone’s mind, without even using a comma to separate the independent clause.—
Anne Victoria Clark,
Vulture,
24 Dec. 2024
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That pitcher would preferably sign a contract without too many zeros and commas.—
Grant Brisbee,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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But the current study, to the authors’ knowledge, is the first to use mortality data to employ the life-table method: a statistical technique for analyzing death rates and the probabilities of survival or death at different age intervals.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lewandowski pulled one back with a 13th minute penalty, but the Greek striker on the other side of the ball completed his hat trick in just over half an hour meaning that Barca trailed 3-1 at the interval.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The film sees Williams, represented via a CGI monkey, start to reconnect with childhood friends after briefly hitting pause on his solo career.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
28 Jan. 2025
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What To Know Friday's execution will be the first in the state following a pause over the Christmas holiday.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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Government will help pick the winners and losers in chips, AI, energy, crypto, satellites and space.—
Axios,
Axios,
20 Jan. 2025
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This space often gets missed when cleaning because of paper clutter, so there’s likely buildup on the desk and surrounding office space.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
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Sacramento has now cycled through six head coaches since Malone, including interims.—
Bennett Durando,
The Denver Post,
27 Dec. 2024
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Angela Burns, interim, Alex Green Elementary Angela Burns most recently worked as the assistant principal at Amqui Global Communications Magnet School in Madison.—
Rachel Wegner,
The Tennessean,
27 June 2024
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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These songs mess with interspace.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2021
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“Time lag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20lag. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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