TRICES Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

trices

noun

Definition of trices

plural of trice

as in minutes

a very small space of time it's just a scrape on the knee—we'll have you fixed up in a trice

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Noun

Slemmer was beaten and cut with a meat cleaver and a box cutter for somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
According to Rubin, online criticisms against the store emerged 15 minutes after Clarkson left the store.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of minutes

Noun

The fastest breakout was 27 seconds, and one intrusion reached full data exfiltration in four minutes.

— Asaf Wiener, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Mahomes spent roughly a dozen seconds venting about a topic neither of them want to detail now, before Eric Bieniemy nodded his head.

— Sam McDowell October 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of seconds

Noun

That night’s show was reduced from 29 to 19 songs, between the concert running late from the interruption and Toomey likely not being able to duplicate Castronovo’s lead singing moments as well as his drumming.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
From its opening moments, Zoe Kazan’s epic, sprawling Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, East of Eden, announces that the monstrous Cathy Ames (played by Florence Pugh) is the true center of the story.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

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