MOMENTS Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

moments

noun

plural of moment

as in times

a particular point at which an event takes place at that moment he suddenly turned around and headed toward me

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as in minutes

a very small space of time I'll be there in just a moment

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as in todays

the time currently existing or in progress I'm not doing anything at the moment

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Recent Examples of moments But moments before the nosedive, passengers seated near the front of the plane heard sounds of a fight inside the cockpit, said passenger Daniel Schlichter, who was seated in the second row. — Sam Mednick, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026 Those moments in people’s careers are the beginning of feeling truly confident about yourself. — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026 Do not analyze your kid’s game The author of several books about peak performance, and a coach of his children’s youth teams, Brad Stulberg understands how consequential these moments can be. — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026 But just moments after takeoff, the helicopter crashed into the ocean near Pebbly Beach. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 This week's quiz spotlights red carpet moments and Hollywood confessions. — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026 Barkov remained down for a few moments, then got up and headed toward the tunnel leading to the Florida dressing room. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 When the series depicts Wuornos pointing a gun into the camera to show what a victim would have seen in his last moments, this is the real Aileen Wuornos. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026 Here’s everything to know about the Netflix film’s final moments, and what happened after in the real-life events. — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Some experts point to worsening public health since the 2008 financial crisis, citing factors such as growing obesity, long hospital waiting times, the cost-of-living crisis and other social causes.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026
Using accounting as an example, Ladish said the AI is given tens of thousands of accounting problems to solve through trial and error, repeating them millions of times across thousands of parallel training runs.

— James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of times

Noun

Those games became the first in Summer Olympic history to publish invaluable epidemiologic data such as diagnoses, core temperatures, and minutes-to-cool, which continue to inform Olympic planning.

— Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
The handful of Israeli passengers grappled with the copilot for several minutes before subduing him and binding his hands with the cord from a set of headphones.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of minutes

Noun

But ask a robot to perform seemingly easy tasks, say, climbing up stairs or grabbing a glass of water, and many of todays droids still struggle.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
Massively popular in the Victorian era (especially the late 1800’s), gallery rails are finding their way into todays trad and modern homes alike.

— Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025

Definition of todays

Noun

On many occasions, these vulnerabilities were years-old, zero-day flaws that bad actors didn’t have the means to attack.

— Ali El Kaafarani, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
These ones from Steve Madden are giving subtle witchy vibes and could be great for dressier occasions.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of occasions

Noun

Body-camera video shows Duran firing seconds after Fortson opened the door holding a handgun pointed down; the disturbance report that sent the deputy there was false.

— Corey Williams, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
That machine set a global benchmark in January 2025 by holding plasma heated to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) for 1,066 seconds.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of seconds

Noun

While this stellar nursery is normally a dazzling, easy sight through binoculars, tonight's viewing dynamic presents a unique and dramatic observation challenge.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2026
View this post on Instagram Keeping dozens of underwater vehicles coordinated presents a tougher problem than simply programming each drone to follow a route.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of presents

Noun

Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that can cause irregular heartbeats and sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy individuals, per John Hopkins Medicine.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of heartbeats

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