timely
Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s impossible to get to school in a timely manner without coffee—I feel like I’m in slow motion otherwise.
- Pay your bills in a timely fashion, or you’ll rack up a lot of late fees.
- Your email was very timely—it answered the question I was about to ask!
Example Sentences
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"At the same time, we need to ensure that women across all Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities have access to culturally appropriate education, screening, and timely follow-up care."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
XTI on Tuesday said a committee of independent board members is working to complete the review, which it said will delay the timely filing of the company’s second-quarter report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
And this may be a timely message as so many millennials and Generation Z find themselves unable to afford to buy a home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Dr Dave Rich, director of policy at the CST, said the review was timely and hopes "it will lead to practical recommendations that help educational institutions tackle antisemitism effectively."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
If someone got into trouble or was going to drown, no timely help would be available out there.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
But unfortunately for the Fed, the timelier releases won’t come until after, Reid added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
An event That could not timelier prove for our petition!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
“Payrolls tend to be a better guide to the economy’s true momentum than the timeliest estimates of GDP,” wrote Sam Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in a note Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
It nothing else, it is the timeliest release of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
The timeliest hit Sunday came from first baseman Carlos Santana, with whom the Mariners are 11-1 since acquiring him from the Royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
But Bolshevism on Trial is the movie that the Jennings Daily Times-Record of Jennings, Louisiana famously proclaimed “the timeliest picture ever screened” on June 3, 1919!
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2020
To die "untimely," as men called it, was the timeliest of all deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Vocabulary lists containing timely
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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