How to Use a matter of in a Sentence

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• Cutting off the oxygen supply should kill the fire in a matter of minutes.
  — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 1 July 2026
• His cause of death is still a matter of dispute among historians.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 July 2026
• Europe has endured two deadly, record-shattering heat waves in a matter of weeks, with a third on the way next week.
  — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
• The schools making this change have largely framed it as a matter of reducing stress and redundancy.
  — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• This is not simply a matter of policy, but of basic human decency.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• Now the kids can pull up satellite images of anywhere on Earth in a matter of seconds, and yes, that's impressive.
  — Sarah Scott, Parents, 30 June 2026
• The funding gap isn’t a matter of the money not existing, the money has already been set aside but is being withheld.
  — Kelly Fleming, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Software vendors now operate in a reality where anyone can spin up an app in a matter of minutes.
  — Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• At some point, detection based on stylistic pattern becomes unreliable as a matter of logic.
  — Byjennifer C. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Moreover, the timeline for doing all this is roughly analogous as well – a matter of weeks, once the fissile material is in hand.
  — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• But boosting manufacturing is not just a matter of building factories.
  — Paul Adepoju, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
• For trans teens and their families, the dispute has involved a matter of immutable identity and equal opportunity.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 June 2026
• Enterprise adoption, however, may be a matter of trust rather than capability.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Bunn says that fear of flying can be overcome through educational tools and counseling, and is a matter of resetting the way your brain views the experience.
  — Katie Riley, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
• QuEra’s machines operate using neutral atoms that are held in a grid by lasers, so raising the qubit count is largely a matter of boosting the laser capacity.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
• When Khomeini died in 1989, Khamenei became his successor within a matter of weeks.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
• The weather service also warns not to leave children or pets unattended in vehicles, as car interiors can reach lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
• Investment in emergency infrastructure has been all but nonexistent, a shortcoming now measured by a death toll that has climbed past seventeen hundred in a matter of days.
  — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
• Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and backup Daniil Tarasov will both be free agents in a matter of days, leaving Florida with a crucial hole — or net – to fill.
  — Ava Dicecca, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2026
• To revolut became a verb in 2022, a matter of months after Storonsky’s company received its full banking license in Ireland.
  — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 July 2026
• Whether a data center moves forward in a municipality ends up being a matter of how public officials sort through the motivations and sociopolitical power of all these players.
  — Lauren Mullenbach, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
• Swift, on the other hand, can follow up in a matter of minutes, acting as NASA’s first responder in space when celestial objects flare with activity.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
• That gap between strategy and human resonance is really a matter of emotional intelligence (EI).
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• The film, starring Andrew Garfield, follows Altman’s dramatic firing and rehiring at OpenAI, which took place in a matter of days.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 30 June 2026
• Where the conservatives on the Court have framed it as a matter of fidelity to the Constitution and to our constitutional history, Trump is more straightforward about how this helps him.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 30 June 2026
• Now, to protect their platforms from extremely capable and abundant AI agents able to conduct cyber-attacks in a matter of seconds, companies are turning to the cyber leaders for protection.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 June 2026
• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are reportedly tying the knot at Madison Square Garden in a matter of days, following in the footsteps of another famous couple.
  — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 July 2026
• Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
• The gap between treating AI as a digital assistant and leveraging AI as foundational enterprise architecture is no longer just a matter of technological maturity.
  — Ali Hoss, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Olympic sports are a matter of national pride in Norway, and Tufte’s success as a two-time world champion and four-time Olympic medalist — including golds in single sculls in 2004 and 2008 — put him in the national spotlight for years.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 1 July 2026