the moment
noun
: as soon as
The moment the cameras are turned off, he is able to relax.
Everything stops the moment she walks in the room.
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Canada and Denmark currently offer a striking contrast in playbooks for responding to a suddenly hostile U.S. While Incoming Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking a stiff-arm tactic for the moment, others are like the Danes and trying to accommodate Trump’s impulses.
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
The outliers may garner attention in the moment, but sometimes for all the wrong reasons.
—Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Actors train for years and years and still can’t really master what Owen has mastered, which is basically just being in the moment and listening and being truthful.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
What was already special will become imbued with even more meaning.
🥰 Capture how things look, sound, smell, taste and feel in the moment.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Mar. 2025
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Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
The outliers may garner attention in the moment, but sometimes for all the wrong reasons.
—Harry Kraemer, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Actors train for years and years and still can’t really master what Owen has mastered, which is basically just being in the moment and listening and being truthful.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
What was already special will become imbued with even more meaning.
🥰 Capture how things look, sound, smell, taste and feel in the moment.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the moment
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“The moment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20moment. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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