timely
Frequently Asked Questions
- It’s impossible to get to school in a timely manner without coffee—I feel like I’m in slow motion otherwise.
- Pay your bills in a timely fashion, or you’ll rack up a lot of late fees.
- Your email was very timely—it answered the question I was about to ask!
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Bank chief Kevin Warsh said policymakers needed more information in the coming weeks to "determine the policy stance appropriate to ensure a timely return of inflation to the two-percent goal".
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
The question you ask is timely because you can’t answer it in isolation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
“A timely agreement matters not only to the parties at the table, but to the entire Southern California supply chain and to the local, state and national economies that depend on it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"Proper training on how to deal with people who are grieving or who are terminally ill in a really sensitive and timely manner would go a really long way."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Your Diversion,” says I. To which he replies, “There can be little Doubt that without your timely Interference, I should have been dispatched by the Musketry of the Regulars.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Williams said the September hike was designed to support “a timelier return to 2% inflation.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Today’s policy action will support a timelier return to the committee’s 2% goal,” the rate-setting committee said in its policy statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
But unfortunately for the Fed, the timelier releases won’t come until after, Reid added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
The beds i' the East are soft; and, thanks to you, That call'd me, timelier than my purpose, hither; For I have gained by it.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
“Payrolls tend to be a better guide to the economy’s true momentum than the timeliest estimates of GDP,” wrote Sam Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in a note Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The timeliest hit Sunday came from first baseman Carlos Santana, with whom the Mariners are 11-1 since acquiring him from the Royals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
“Phase Six,” about a future pandemic, is his timeliest novel yet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
But Bolshevism on Trial is the movie that the Jennings Daily Times-Record of Jennings, Louisiana famously proclaimed “the timeliest picture ever screened” on June 3, 1919!
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2020
It gave us the best and timeliest help we could have had, and was a great impetus to the movement.
From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
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