millisecond

Example Sentences

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David Mackenzie’s “Fuze” springs to life in a millisecond.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

"I would say they were a millisecond, like the fastest a camera shutter can open and close," added Wiseman, who said the flashes were "white to bluish white."

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

“As a user,” Krug argues, “I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable—or not.”

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

By analyzing these events, they measured "parity coherence exceeding one millisecond," a duration considered highly promising for future operations involving topological qubits based on Majorana modes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

Maybe for a millisecond, the world stopped spinning.

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson