right away

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Recent Examples of right away Try washing the tint out with a clarifying shampoo or a deep treatment mask like Matrix Biolage HydraSource Deep Treatment Hair Mask right away. Maureen Choi, Glamour, 25 Sep. 2025 This vacuum impressed us right away with its strong suction, quickly lifting dirt, crumbs, and debris from a variety of surfaces. Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025 Inside, 10 different types of hyaluronic acid work together to drench your skin in hydration—plumping it up right away while keeping it moisturized and bouncy for hours. Sarah Han, Allure, 25 Sep. 2025 Corrective actions were taken right away to stop the overflow, the report says. Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for right away
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Adverb
  • The 11th Street Kids of Harcourt, John Economos (Steve Agee), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) and Adebayo had already set out to rescue Chris from Earth-2, and Harcourt’s instincts as an agent who minds her surroundings picked up on the white supremacist haven almost immediately.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Kate debuted with blonde hair and was immediately met with troll comments.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Kwan promptly hit an opposite-field double.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • If someone succumbs to the heat, promptly relocate them to a cool, shaded location.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The city -- home to more than 710,000 people before Russia's full-scale invasion -- is now only around 16 miles from the front line and subject to continuous Russian attacks.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • As an independent school leader, Shackelford now makes $101,000 a year.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The rich texture instantly elevates even the simplest outfit, while the soft finish adds a touch of warmth that guards against autumn’s crisp air.
    Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Bet $5 to instantly get $200 in bonus bets, or bet up to $1,000 with the safety net offer and get a bonus refund if your bet loses.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The new School Partnership Program gives educators a way to quickly report safety concerns directly to Instagram.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The first challenge booted someone right off the bat when 1,000 balloons dropped from the ceiling above the contestants but only 99 had flower leis inside.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Coat any poles as well as the top of bird feeders with WD-40 so that squirrels will slide right off.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Of course Tamra threw Gina right under that particular bus.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The cornea is a perfect alternating stack of tiny fibers that is so regular that light goes right through it, and the cells of the lens have lost nearly all their internal structures (organelles), leaving only a soup of almost identical proteins that don’t interfere much with the passage of light.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • On glass, anodized metal and acrylic, especially, where blue and IR tend to struggle, the Omni X UV laser produces crisp, sharp results that look pro straight off the machine.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Rihanna was photographed walking around New York City in an oversized, four-armed blazer straight off the runway.
    Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Right away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/right%20away. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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