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"If we don't preserve nest sites, and someone paves over them, we could lose in an instant 5.5 million bees that are important pollinators."

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

"A lot of things happened in an instant," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

O’Brien also noted the hole left by Reiner’s death when it came to celebrity political activism, saying “to have that voice go quiet in an instant is still hard for me to comprehend.”

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

After 11 closely contested rounds, in which Ball was at times typically bullish on the inside and Figueroa responded with relentless volume, the fight turned in an instant.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Silver threaded the coils of hair escaping from my mother’s headscarf, and her face was more gaunt than I remembered it, but I recognized her in an instant.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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