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instant

[in-stuhnt] / ˈɪn stənt /




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“When I see a bunch of red on the screen, I have this instant feeling to buy the dip,” Cerminaro told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Ultra-processed foods include many everyday products, such as breakfast cereals, packaged bread, and instant soups.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

But users of the Fox News app will have an AI-powered function that provides instant access to the network’s reporting on any contest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

No longer just events where designers use trunks full of samples to sell preorders, many combine the instant gratification of off-the-rack shopping with exclusive locations—private homes, hotels, yachts—and free perks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

He heard the familiar puttering of an old propeller, recognizing for an instant the Universal logo above him, the giant globe being encircled by a small airplane.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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


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