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The cameras weren’t on her at that instant, but the audience could be heard gasping as the image cut to co-hosts Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin tending to her.

From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2022

They’re also Lyft drivers at that instant in time as well.

From The Verge • Aug. 17, 2021

I wanted to beat myself up for stupidly not having her on a leash, but all I could do at that instant was chase after her.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2018

Your instantaneous speed at that instant would be 40 km/h—the same magnitude but without a direction.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Úrsula’s spell.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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