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"I was waving at my friend and sister like 'I'll be home in a sec just doing a loop round the block!'," he says about the Europa League celebrations.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Hang on a sec, we imagine Karl saying, this connection is terrible.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Mir became the pace setter after the 28-year-old clocked 1 min 56.874 sec on his Honda machine after 11 laps, to become the fastest rider over two days of testing in Malaysia.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Back up for a sec: Koufax pitched a shutout in Game 5 on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
“One sec, Zig,” Nora says as she types into her phone and then holds it out to me.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
“Fam we were 1.1 secs away from being down thousands lol,” one defendant wrote in a group text to his alleged conspirators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
We watched it meticulously fold T-shirts in about 90 secs, but its creator says it is getting faster all the time.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
That meant he reclaimed the yellow jersey from Ben Healy and more than doubled his time advantage over Vingegaard, his main rival for the general classification, who is now 3 mins 31 secs behind.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
High on confidence after running a personal best 6.49 secs to seal his breakthrough triumph in Dutch city Apeldoorn 13 days ago, he stated then that he was "coming to take it all".
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
"I don't feel like chewing macaroni again; I shall open a tin of meat in less than two secs?"
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
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