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“It can be ruined in an instant with teams of people on mining trucks.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

It was a moving atmosphere, immortalised by the countless phones raised to capture photos and videos of that precise instant.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

If ministers said, for example, that prisoners with manslaughter convictions could not be considered for the scheme, that would have an instant impact on many other inmates.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

No livestream could have delivered that shiver, or the silence of hundreds of strangers falling still, then gasping, in the same instant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Patch was asleep in an instant, fallen across the straw in the corner.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The question of whether spacetime truly exists should not be particularly controversial or even conceptually difficult once we understand what is meant by "spacetime," "events," and "instants."

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

In effect, as the researchers recorded the state of the system at different instants, they were accumulating high-dimensional data points.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2022

These are things that, tragically, lead to a momentary loss of focus; but they are accidents, tiny blips, and instants.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel