within minutes
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: within a very short amount of time
We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.
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Our officers were on scene within minutes, and investigators are working at pace to piece together the offenders’ movements.
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The goal is to ascertain, within minutes or even seconds, the speed and direction of the incoming space junk as well as its fragmentation.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Stocks climbed within minutes of the social media post.
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Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 23 Jan. 2026
The goal is to ascertain, within minutes or even seconds, the speed and direction of the incoming space junk as well as its fragmentation.
—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Stocks climbed within minutes of the social media post.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2026
Officers arrived within minutes and found Hernandez suffering from gunshot wounds.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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