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[in-stuhnt] / ˈɪn stənt /




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"I had to have radiotherapy twice and that's left me with instant early menopause, lymphoedema and nerve damage."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Financial products have been increasingly adding game-like features that create competition or instant gratification to keep users hooked — and the latest example is Tuyo, a prepaid debit card with a “buy-now-pay-maybe” feature.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Cameras rolled as she was carried away on a stretcher, prompting instant public outrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It’s so immediately distinctive: 0 to 60 in five seconds, instant energy, a handful of guitar notes before all of the instruments rev up.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The instant of dismissal we would mob the door of Barracks 8, stepping on each others’ heels in our eagerness to get inside, to shrink the world back to understandable proportions.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

In effect, as the researchers recorded the state of the system at different instants, they were accumulating high-dimensional data points.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2022

Only a few instants passed before Robar Royce and Emmon Cuy came bursting in, though it felt like half the night.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin


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