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setTimeout() on Window/Worker plus consistency fixes
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Update files/en-us/web/api/window/settimeout/index.md
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Expand Up @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ If you wish to call a function repeatedly (e.g., every _N_ milliseconds), you ca

### Working with asynchronous functions

`setTimeout()` is an asynchronous function, meaning that the timer function will not pause execution of other functions in the function's stack.
In other words, you cannot use `setTimeout()` to create a "pause" before the next function in the stack fires.
`setTimeout()` is an asynchronous function, meaning that it completes immediately, and does not block the execution of the following code.
In other words, you cannot use `setTimeout()` to create a "pause" before the next line is executed.

See the following example:

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