timely
Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s impossible to get to school in a timely manner without coffee—I feel like I’m in slow motion otherwise.
- Pay your bills in a timely fashion, or you’ll rack up a lot of late fees.
- Your email was very timely—it answered the question I was about to ask!
Example Sentences
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And this may be a timely message as so many millennials and Generation Z find themselves unable to afford to buy a home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
But it is of limited use to analysts interested in the most timely, granular trends, because 11 of the 12 months in that change had previously been published.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Dr Dave Rich, director of policy at the CST, said the review was timely and hopes "it will lead to practical recommendations that help educational institutions tackle antisemitism effectively."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Off-site providers who are not paid timely may not accept new patients or continue to provide vital care and services.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He had talked with them, acquainted them with family gossip, instructed them occasionally when it had seemed timely and proper for him to do so.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
But unfortunately for the Fed, the timelier releases won’t come until after, Reid added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
The beds i' the East are soft; and, thanks to you, That call'd me, timelier than my purpose, hither; For I have gained by it.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
“Payrolls tend to be a better guide to the economy’s true momentum than the timeliest estimates of GDP,” wrote Sam Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in a note Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The timeliest hit Sunday came from first baseman Carlos Santana, with whom the Mariners are 11-1 since acquiring him from the Royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
“Phase Six,” about a future pandemic, is his timeliest novel yet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
Perhaps the timeliest work on view right now is “Justice for Our Lives,” a series of digital portraits of victims of police brutality, created by Oree Originol.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2020
To die "untimely," as men called it, was the timeliest of all deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Vocabulary lists containing timely
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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