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Federal regulations require banks to keep a broad range of communications, including emails, phone recordings and instant messages, which can be used if necessary for compliance investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It doesn’t take much to zhuzh up instant ramen into a genuinely good meal.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
They later learned the line was due to people signing up for a JetBlue credit card on their phones so they could get instant access to the space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Launching 1 August, instant updates will be delivered from key accounts, it said.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Akira looked longingly at Vicki’s pickup truck, and its promise of instant escape from the wildfire.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
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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