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real time

[ree-uhl, reel] / ˈri əl, ril /
NOUN
actual time for action or event
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“Commanders are working hard to adjust in real time with those systems and make sure they’re in the right places and not easily targetable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Eastern time to ask MarketWatch’s Christine Ji and IBM’s vice president of AI Foundations, David Cox, your AI questions in real time.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

"Markets can look skittish or confused, but what they're really doing is managing event risk in real time, with oil sitting right at the centre of that."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

With “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen,” Boston found herself thrown into the position of showrunner without ever having spent any real time on a set.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking