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instant

[in-stuhnt] / ˈɪn stənt /




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Regardless, California’s latest push toward getting more EVs on the road is the MyFirstEV instant rebate program, which will knock $3,500 off the purchase price of a new EV and $1,750 off a used model.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Julia said she felt an "instant spark" when meeting Lorenzo and described their relationship as "seriously unserious".

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

I hoped my cat lady image, normally an instant man repellent, would make the man go away.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bedsheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The instant of dismissal we would mob the door of Barracks 8, stepping on each others’ heels in our eagerness to get inside, to shrink the world back to understandable proportions.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

When analyzing spacetime, do events, instants, worldlines or even spacetime as a whole exist in the same sense as places and people?

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

In ECSE, scientists will take x-ray pictures of scale-model pits as they collapse and investigate how neutrons behave during those crucial instants before the nuclear detonation.

From Science Magazine Apr. 20, 2023

There’s just no comparison, and in a way it isn’t fair to test the flavor of Cometeer against powdered instants — but we did because when it comes to add-water-and-stir coffee, it’s an option.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2023

For a few instants, I followed him somewhere else in my mind, down some duct of the imagination.

From New York Times Oct. 26, 2022

Only a few instants passed before Robar Royce and Emmon Cuy came bursting in, though it felt like half the night.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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