instant
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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
“But Freefly is smaller…it is instant and goes straight there.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
"With instant helps there is no such issue."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The instant he thought the question, he sensed the dragon's location.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
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
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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