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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
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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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