as in minute
a very small space of time
I'll be ready in a second
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as in to assist
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Recent Examples of second
Cbs New York Team,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
For anyone going through a divorce, there are more emotions and ups and downs than can ever be conveyed in a 30-second video on TikTok, Wright said.
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Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Pawlak is one of about 150 Coast Guard cadets training on Eagle for the second half of the summer.
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Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Nnamdi Onyeagwara,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Norway was a soccer power in the 1990s, playing in consecutive World Cups and climbing to second in the FIFA world rankings.
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Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Noun
Dingler also doubled, scored on a single by Spencer Torkelson in the first and lofted a sacrifice fly in the second.
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Cbs New York Team,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
For anyone going through a divorce, there are more emotions and ups and downs than can ever be conveyed in a 30-second video on TikTok, Wright said.
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Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
Adjective
When Ecuador could not earn shots on target and time was running out during the second half, Piero Hincapié ran toward forward Santi Giménez and covered his mouth while speaking.
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Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Pawlak is one of about 150 Coast Guard cadets training on Eagle for the second half of the summer.
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Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Verb
McInnes, a former Rangers player, has joined the club on a three-year contract having led Hearts to second in the Scottish Premiership.
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Nnamdi Onyeagwara,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Norway was a soccer power in the 1990s, playing in consecutive World Cups and climbing to second in the FIFA world rankings.
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Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second
Noun
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Add the pasta and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
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That assessment comes from Nielsen’s TV and streaming measurement system, which calculates how many people have watched for at least one minute.
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Li has dedicated freezer bags for different dishes, like vegetable scraps for soups or fruit discards for smoothies.
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Tracking discards, reading opponents, weighing probabilities and managing your own hand all happen at once, every turn.
Adjective
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Chief Randal Taylor, in an another car behind Adams, aided the pursuit, the police said.
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As the Gophers kept winning in a historic season, stakes surrounding their season-ending rivalry game with Wisconsin kept ratcheting up — outgrowing even the another annual Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe.
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Harpring says the city is using smaller fireworks than in previous years and has added additional staff to assist with safety, a decision made after a 10-acre fire broke out in the city earlier this year.
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Royals catcher Carter Jensen made a pair of strong throws to assist Lugo on the mound.
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Key moment The Dream controlled the game early.
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Because she had already been assessed a technical foul moments earlier, the shove counted as her second of the night, earning an automatic ejection.
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The same strain has forced record culls and pushed up egg prices across North America and Europe, and Australian flocks have no exposure to it.
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Since the decision, residents and conservationists around the country have rallied around the geese, urging the HOA to reconsider the cull and find nonlethal measures to control the population.
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Those concerns and fears crystalize in responses to Anthropic’s Mythos model and the successive rollout of Fable, where both of these models can be useful in allowing hackers to leverage agents swarms.
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His baptismal register does not name his father, but he was raised by two successive men.
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Sportswear giant Nike posted quarterly earnings that topped forecasts, aided by an expected refund of nearly $986 million in tariffs.
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The death toll includes thousands of children, in addition to aid workers and journalists.
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“Second.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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