Meaning of timeline | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future).
2. The feed of a social media service, especially when ordered chronologically.
3. A schedule of activities; a timetable.
4. An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.

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Examples

“But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.”

“Your Timeline is essentially your home base on Facebook, the place where all your Facebook friends can view your information and activity.”

“I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends”

“But the move was calculated to allow Twitter more control over the apps and media appearing in users' timelines”

““Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika, who studies the labor behind AI at the Distributed AI Research Institute, about people who work behind the scenes.”

“on an alternate timeline”

“worst timeline”

“SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it. WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.”

“So in that sense, if we want to talk about the timeline of what it would mean for Trump to be winning and reshifting the Constitutional order, part of what I think about is: If the neoliberal order is cracked, as Gerstle says it is, then the question is: What will succeed it?”

“In one timeline, she [Marjorie Taylor Greene] could have used the Epstein win as the foundation of an anti-Trump resistance in the Republican ranks.”

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