Examples of well-timed in a Sentence
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Disney’s Hulu trial is well-timed, given its spat with Spectrum leaving cable customers with legally dubious options for watching some of the year’s biggest sports events.
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Wes Davis, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023
This year’s event is also well-timed because the peak falls on the weekend.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Pregnancy after 40
Is there an ideal time in life to become a parent – a time when parenting is typically easier, more well-timed or just better overall?
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
All five said this sort of fact pattern could draw scrutiny from regulators because of how well-timed the trades were, and how anomalous compared to Sloan’s trades before and after.
—Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
Kenya August falls in the area’s dry season (from July to September), so a trip then is well-timed for the thrilling annual Great Migration when more than two million wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, and many of their predators cross the Serengeti into Kenya’s Maasai Mara.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
His pivot was well-timed.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 11 Apr. 2023
That 24-hour delay was well-timed for Hollingsworth, whose frostbitten eye had more hours to heal.
—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
All five times, their jumps were so well-timed that McGuire held the ball instead of throwing down.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
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Wes Davis, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2023
This year’s event is also well-timed because the peak falls on the weekend.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Pregnancy after 40
Is there an ideal time in life to become a parent – a time when parenting is typically easier, more well-timed or just better overall?
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
All five said this sort of fact pattern could draw scrutiny from regulators because of how well-timed the trades were, and how anomalous compared to Sloan’s trades before and after.
—Ellis Simani, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
Kenya August falls in the area’s dry season (from July to September), so a trip then is well-timed for the thrilling annual Great Migration when more than two million wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, and many of their predators cross the Serengeti into Kenya’s Maasai Mara.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
His pivot was well-timed.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 11 Apr. 2023
That 24-hour delay was well-timed for Hollingsworth, whose frostbitten eye had more hours to heal.
—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
All five times, their jumps were so well-timed that McGuire held the ball instead of throwing down.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
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1604, in the meaning defined above
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