momentarily
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anon, before long, by and by, directly, presently, shortly, soon
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Acy walked menacingly toward Drummond and the two stood nose-to-nose momentarily. — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit Pistons' SVG: Michigan lost to 'best team in the country'," 3 Apr. 2018 Both developments at least momentarily helped ease concerns about a recent slowdown in U.S. manufacturing growth, which analysts have largely blamed on the U.S.-China trade dispute. — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, "U.S. Government Bonds Pull Back After Strong Data," 17 Jan. 2019 Late Night Barn’ from home, and was momentarily fearful that people would be tired and wouldn't see it. — Alexandra Macon, Vogue, "A Bride Designed Her Own Dress for Her Elegantly Low-Key Wedding Upstate," 30 Jan. 2018 OG Anunoby's 3-pointer inside of 10 seconds tied the game at 103, momentarily completing Toronto's comeback. — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, "LeBron James does it again, beats buzzer to lift Cavaliers to 105-103 win over Raptors in Game 3," 6 May 2018 Foles momentarily froze, leading defenders to ignore him. — Wsj Sports Staff, WSJ, "A Philly Special. A 7-Hour World Series Game. A Memorable Tweet.," 27 Dec. 2018 Currently, his company appears momentarily content with claiming to have an edge-to-edge display, albeit with that substantial disruption at the top. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "2018 was a weird notch year — what’s next?," 18 Dec. 2018 Gone was the ranting, imposing figure much of America wakes up to on Twitter, momentarily replaced by what could pass as a conventional Republican. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "Trump talks togetherness while pushing partisan agenda in State of the Union," 30 Jan. 2018 About halfway through the ride, the train momentarily comes to a stop until linear synchronous motors launch it from 0 to 47 mph in 3 seconds. — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, "Silver Dollar City's Time Traveler coaster review," 1 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'momentarily.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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