instant
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Gone are the days of instant ramen and all-nighters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
“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
But we’ve never seen an instant parent quite like Jordan Firstman‘s party promoter Peter in “Club Kid,” the Cannes Film Festival sensation that Firstman impressively directed and wrote for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Ultra-processed foods include many everyday products, such as breakfast cereals, packaged bread, and instant soups.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
But in that instant, Louise bounded up on the foot of the bed, landing neatly.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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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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