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Instants stack together to form a two-dimensional spacetime.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

Camelot said its sales decline for the year ending 31 March was primarily driven by a £240m fall in sales of National Lottery Instants.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2022

Instants later, the jet smashed through a fence at the end of the runway.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instants later the car smashed into the spring buffers at the bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instants, therefore, are not among the data of experience, and, if legitimate, must be either inferred or constructed.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand