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tick

noun

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as in minute

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Recent Examples of tick Professor Tom Mather and correspondent David Pogue venture into tick habitat (ironically waving a white flag). — David Pogue, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 All adoption-able pets at Humane Indiana are vaccinated, tested for heartworm, dewormed, microchipped, given flea/tick and heartworm prevention, and spayed or neutered. — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 It has also been known to stop the itch from wasp, chigger, and tick bites. — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2026 Four of the ticks were found to carry Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and four others carried Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacterium that causes hard tick relapsing fever and is almost always thought to be concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tick

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Noun

De La Cruz grew up in the rural town of Las Minas, about a 30-minute drive from the heart of Havana, the Cuban capital.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
City were not exactly under the cosh at the end, but Guardiola spent the final few minutes signalling to his side to go to five at the back, with Fernando dropping in from midfield.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of minute

Noun

Ole Miss moves into the top 10 for its last-second win against another top-25 opponent in Louisville.

— Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Senior receiver Mikey Matthews made a significant contribution, catching four passes for 88 yards, including a deep ball with 13 seconds left at the end of the first half that allowed UCLA to kick a field goal and take a seven-point lead.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of second

Noun

Gizelle, who has been stirring the pot and playing producer for everyone on the trip, keeps up her conniving ways by sitting down all the RHOP ladies except for Candiace during their Potomac retrospective moment at the party.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
That’s a margin-for-error lesson, a moment that may continue to burn for a while.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of moment

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In the days leading up to Saturday’s game against the Saints, Bennett and Simpson split second-team reps during the teams’ joint practice.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2026
Rodriguez turning his brain off for a split second in a game that was long, long over is somewhat forgivable.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of split second

Noun

Turn and continue cooking, turning every 2 minutes or so, until pork chops are deeply browned on both sides, 10–12 minutes (an instant-read thermometer inserted near the bone should register 145°).

— Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026
In an awful instant, two boys lose their mother and the movie loses any kind of principled posture.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of instant

Noun

The game has a heartbeat that’s going to ask something of you in every situation and José’s gotten to that point.

— C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Commander John Young made his fifth and final trip to space at age 50, with a heartbeat of 75 to 80 beats a minute, while first-time flier Bob Crippen, 43, had a heartbeat pulsed at 130 beats per minute.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026

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