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on-the-spot

[on-thuh-spot, awn-] / ˈɒn ðəˌspɒt, ˈɔn- /












ADJECTIVE
split second
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Example Sentences

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Most of all, I’d leave room in the itinerary for on-the-spot finds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Liu practiced in the dress and McKinnon was able to make on-the-spot adjustments.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

As we were with Mr Hong, whose boat capsized earlier this year, a team of government inspectors arrived to carry out a series of on-the-spot checks on two of his other vessels.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

They could search for injured and trapped people in an earthquake or a collapsed building, for example, and apply on-the-spot care, such as administering CPR.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2024

Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols