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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
Pulido’s celebrity gives him instant universal name ID in the district.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
The film, starring Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as grizzled spies on Easter Island in 1973, got a similar reception from gala festival audiences in Venice and Toronto in September, triggering instant Oscar chatter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Harriet’s eyebrows popped up for an instant, but she squashed them down into a normal expression.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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
Matthos lent him a hand to help him hack over the raiL For those few instants, Black Betba and White Hart were the calm eye in the midst of the storm.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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