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Someone who places lots of bets using prediction-market apps craves instant gratification.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was a moving atmosphere, immortalised by the countless phones raised to capture photos and videos of that precise instant.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
A hefty-enough price would also, in an instant, wipe away key performance targets standing between Musk and billions of dollars in shares, report Theo Francis and Andrew Mollica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was instant, without even thinking about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
One instant there wasn’t as much as a jaybird around my traps; then as quick as Mama was with a peach tree switch, there was a monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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