in its own time

idiom

: at the time that is right or appropriate for one and not sooner

Everything happens in its own time.

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Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 The stopwatch started on rap’s postmodern era with Chief Keef’s Almighty So, released in late 2013—an obscure-sounding record misconstrued in its own time, whose intuitive style would inform just about every major rap trend in the decade to come. —Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024

Whether or not it’s remembered as a movie that didn’t get its due in its own time is something that awards voters this year will have to decide for themselves. —Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024

What fortitude may be gathered from a feeling unfelt in its own time? —Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024

Honestly, each feature happened naturally in its own time. —Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024

Often ineffective in its own time, their moral example can be the basis of national reconstruction and renewal once the occupation or dictatorship comes to an end. —Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023

Even in its own time, the Wattstax concert had important critics. —Rj Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022

For the purpose of its calculations, the theoretical side of the team imagined these two independent collections of beats along two separate time lines; each collection is effectively pulsing in its own time dimension. —Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 26 July 2022

After nearly three decades, Haynes acknowledges that this particular cover photo and its process exists in its own time: Things have changed. —Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2022

Rhymes for in its own time

• aforetime
• allozyme
• anytime
• christmastime
• cybercrime
• dinnertime
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• isozyme
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• maritime
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