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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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
The school went on lockdown, and staff located the student within minutes, according to the police department.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Some of the layered turbidites are so closely spaced that these events could have happened anywhere from within minutes to decades of each other.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
But within minutes, everything changed.
—Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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