(at) any minute (now)
idiom
: very soon
The bus should be here any minute now.
I'm expecting a phone call any minute.
Things could change at any minute.
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What a strange phenomenon the Disney Channel of the 2000s was: all those squeaky clean sitcoms about sweet kids with big dreams; all that ever-lurking paranoia that one of the sweet kids would pull a Britney any minute now.
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Constance Grady, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
Is loyalty to an old friend and/or anxiety about having a kid reason enough to spend a day or two away from a wife who could go into labor at any minute?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
As with all utopias, this one is filled with dark secrets that threaten to explode at any minute.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Some of these perfumes are already bubbling under the surface, while others are fresh launches poised to take over your FYP any minute now.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
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Constance Grady, Vox, 19 Feb. 2025
Is loyalty to an old friend and/or anxiety about having a kid reason enough to spend a day or two away from a wife who could go into labor at any minute?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
As with all utopias, this one is filled with dark secrets that threaten to explode at any minute.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Some of these perfumes are already bubbling under the surface, while others are fresh launches poised to take over your FYP any minute now.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for (at) any minute (now)
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“(at) any minute (now).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/%28at%29%20any%20minute%20%28now%29. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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