within minutes
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: within a very short amount of time
We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.
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An estimated 8% of American children, or about 1 in 13 kids, and 6% of adults have food allergies, with reactions occurring within minutes or hours and symptoms ranging from mild to life-threatening, federal officials say.
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
Cloud providers sometimes inform customers that some GPUs will be moved into maintenance mode and become unavailable within minutes.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2025
The service advised that time outdoors should be limited, and that frostbite, followed by hypothermia, could occur within minutes.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The panthers typically wake up and walk away within minutes.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
Cloud providers sometimes inform customers that some GPUs will be moved into maintenance mode and become unavailable within minutes.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2025
The service advised that time outdoors should be limited, and that frostbite, followed by hypothermia, could occur within minutes.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The panthers typically wake up and walk away within minutes.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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