quick time
noun
: a rate of marching in which 120 steps each 30 inches in length are taken in one minute
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Does everything have to be done in double quick time?
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Some options available in the accessibility settings include high-contrast modes for clearer visuals, a motion sensitivity option to turn off camera shakes, and an autocomplete for quick time events.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
Although safety protocols mandate that there be no spectators on hand, there will be pacers and the flat, looped course was designed to produce quick times: sub-2:10 for men; sub-2:24 for women.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2020
In order to make sense of it all in quick time and make decision-making more efficient, our brain resorts to shortcuts.
—Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
Vanguard is a punishing game with its fast pace and quick time-to-kill, and the competition is as close as its ever been in the esport.
—Dallas News, 28 May 2022
Type 1 develops in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood, when the body’s own immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, wiping them out in a relatively quick time.
—Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010
The demand for demining experts is so high that crash courses have been launched, teaching the appropriate skills in double-quick time.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
Players would simply point plastic guns at their TV set to rack up points or wait for the prompt to perform button presses that had little to do with what happened on the screen — early precursors to contemporary quick time events.
—Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Tim Ellis, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Some options available in the accessibility settings include high-contrast modes for clearer visuals, a motion sensitivity option to turn off camera shakes, and an autocomplete for quick time events.
—WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
Although safety protocols mandate that there be no spectators on hand, there will be pacers and the flat, looped course was designed to produce quick times: sub-2:10 for men; sub-2:24 for women.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2020
In order to make sense of it all in quick time and make decision-making more efficient, our brain resorts to shortcuts.
—Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
Vanguard is a punishing game with its fast pace and quick time-to-kill, and the competition is as close as its ever been in the esport.
—Dallas News, 28 May 2022
Type 1 develops in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood, when the body’s own immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, wiping them out in a relatively quick time.
—Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2010
The demand for demining experts is so high that crash courses have been launched, teaching the appropriate skills in double-quick time.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
Players would simply point plastic guns at their TV set to rack up points or wait for the prompt to perform button presses that had little to do with what happened on the screen — early precursors to contemporary quick time events.
—Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
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