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be lagged
verb
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
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As in our case, surface-responses tend to be lagged owing to the thermal inertia of the oceans.
Delph Carpenter said that the Secretary's contracts should be lagged for only a limited period of time in order to give the States complete freedom to agree.
The maximum roof temperature appearance time for the reservoir-incorporated roof could be lagged by up to 100 min compared to the traditional exposed roof.
Sure, there are still a lot of lofts to be lagged, draft excluders to be bought and people need to change their habits and wear more jumpers rather than automatically turning up the heat another degree.
Although we speculate that the cause of this may be processor delay, since the processor directly outputs the sync functions and thus must be lagged from the changing input voltages, or even line delay, we have not been able to confirm the source.
However, achievement of disease prevention and body weight reduction should be lagged behind.
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Rick Perry's poll numbers may be lagging.
seem to always be lagging behind the private sector.
After tonight, she'll still be lagging.
Technology, because it's lagged behind.
Values are lagged one period.
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