within moments

idiom

: very quickly : within a very short amount of time
Within moments, dozens of people had gathered.

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Inevitably, within moments of the effigy of the Man crashing to the ground Saturday night, a few burners begin departing from Black Rock City. Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025 The news unfolded quickly and spread within moments on social media. David Oliver, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 In a TikTok video, the woman took a clip of her Labrador retriever, Bear, unexpectedly breaking a glass window at his height within moments of their arrival. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025 Even so, Clark's recovery from Nuclear Man's poisonous scratch defies both logic and explanation (take another bow, magic crystal), as does his decision to dump Nuclear Man in a lunar crater that'll be exposed to the full, restorative glare of the sun within moments. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for within moments

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“Within moments.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20moments. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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