from minute to minute
idiom
: very quickly as time passes
Things kept changing from minute to minute.
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Kick back in a comfy chair and watch how the color changes from minute to minute.
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Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 10 May 2022
That might be from minute to minute — when a cloud passes in front of the sun, for instance — or at different hours of the day, such as when there’s no wind during the times of peak demand for electricity in the afternoons and evenings.
—NBC News, 6 Aug. 2021
It’s affected by forces and can’t be pinned down with exactitude from minute to minute.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
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Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 10 May 2022
That might be from minute to minute — when a cloud passes in front of the sun, for instance — or at different hours of the day, such as when there’s no wind during the times of peak demand for electricity in the afternoons and evenings.
—NBC News, 6 Aug. 2021
It’s affected by forces and can’t be pinned down with exactitude from minute to minute.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
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“From minute to minute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20minute%20to%20minute. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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