moment by moment

idiom

: very quickly as time passes
The weather kept changing moment by moment.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Calculating the object’s volume is much easier than using standard methods for computing the amplitudes, which laboriously reconstruct all the ways a particle collision might play out, moment by moment. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022 Space correspondents Kristin Fisher and Rachel Crane will bring us moment by moment reporting from the launch along with a team of experts. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022 In fact there are probably all sorts of subtle cues around us, influencing our cognitive goals moment by moment. Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2014 My second response to your question has to do with recognizing and managing our mindsets, moment by moment by moment. Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022 Breaking them down moment by moment, each time finding something new. Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021 There were TikTok creators who broke down the slap moment by moment, memes on memes, and many arguments about misogynoir and Smith having had to repress his feelings about the moment to be palatable to white audiences for so long. Time, 12 Dec. 2022 Whether Musk stood in first or second place was often changing moment by moment. Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022 Like a great number of women, Walsh is juggling several roles in perpetuity—motherhood, a career as a writer, the act of doing domestic work—and so figuring out what exactly to embody day to day, moment by moment, is a chore. Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2022 See More

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“Moment by moment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moment%20by%20moment. Accessed 28 May. 2023.

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