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Data centers enable Zoom meetings, online food deliveries, video streaming, instant retail stock trading and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The egregious business decision drew instant ire from all sides.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Its setting and story, inspired by ancient Greek mythology, along with its brutal combat, made it an instant hit with fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Someone who places lots of bets using prediction-market apps craves instant gratification.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was all she could hear, her heart and her breathing, and for a wild instant she thought she might be able to match it, like her heart, too, might start beating.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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 nature, tetraquarks probably existed only during the first instants of the Universe, when all matter was compressed in an extremely tight space, says Belyaev.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2021
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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