timely
Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s impossible to get to school in a timely manner without coffee—I feel like I’m in slow motion otherwise.
- Pay your bills in a timely fashion, or you’ll rack up a lot of late fees.
- Your email was very timely—it answered the question I was about to ask!
Example Sentences
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That’s part of what makes “Hurricane Seasons,” an intimate new independent film about a Puerto Rican family returning home, feel so timely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
However, he’s also made timely past warnings of technology selloffs and advised investors to buy equities during an early stage of the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Davies, who provides one-to-one guidance through her company Essential Parenting, said families may not be getting "timely, consistent support before difficulties become entrenched".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
No high levels of the government have demonstrated full or timely comprehension of what the scientists, engineers and machines are up to even now in the frontier labs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
If not for the young housemaid’s sense of duty—and Simon’s timely arrival, of course—the children might have been whisked off to spend the day alone with Judge Quinzy, an uncomfortable notion at best.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Williams said the September hike was designed to support “a timelier return to 2% inflation.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Today’s policy action will support a timelier return to the committee’s 2% goal,” the rate-setting committee said in its policy statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
An event That could not timelier prove for our petition!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
“Payrolls tend to be a better guide to the economy’s true momentum than the timeliest estimates of GDP,” wrote Sam Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in a note Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
It nothing else, it is the timeliest release of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
The timeliest hit Sunday came from first baseman Carlos Santana, with whom the Mariners are 11-1 since acquiring him from the Royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
But Bolshevism on Trial is the movie that the Jennings Daily Times-Record of Jennings, Louisiana famously proclaimed “the timeliest picture ever screened” on June 3, 1919!
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2020
It gave us the best and timeliest help we could have had, and was a great impetus to the movement.
From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
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