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been lagging on
verb
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
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Google, whose business has been lagging on the Russian Internet, stepped up its business there with the $140 million purchase of a Cyrillic online advertising business on Friday.
Any suggestions that the FA Cup might have been lagging on Arsenal's list of priorities this week when they are in action in three different competitions were dismissed by the strength of Arsène Wenger's team selection.
"Since the 19th Century, China has been lagging on the world stage," he said.
Safari has been lagging on the web for a while — does Apple even care?
For months, I'd been lagging on my calcium regimen.
So Turkey has been lagging on its anti-IS efforts, for example by not controlling the border, and people are getting increasingly impatient with anyone thought to be playing footsie with the Islamic State.
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In another 30% of cells, at least one of the homologs was lagging on the anaphase-I spindle.
They are lagging on this".
"There was no disguising the extent," Winder deduces, "to which Britain's Muslims were lagging on nearly every material indicator".
Britain, more recently multicultural than the United States, is lagging on this concept, but the principle is taking a tragic beating in America as well.
While Australia may be lagging on a government level, many of our businesses are leading the world in waking up to the risks posed by fossil fuels and the opportunities of the new clean economy.
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