millisecond

Example Sentences

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A millisecond after the doors closed, my friend said, “I think I’m going to call him.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world’s quickest traders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

This discrepancy led many to favor another explanation: ancient, fast-spinning neutron stars known as millisecond pulsars.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

“If the timing was just a millisecond different either way,” he was told, “you’re probably looking at surgery, and done for a long time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2025

Within a millisecond, there was a line at least a mile long.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas