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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When my bike tire blew out on a rural road, three strangers stopped within minutes to help.
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Carter Popkin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
Case in point: when the store sent out a discount offer to new University of Virginia and Piedmont Community College students at the beginning of the 2024-25 academic calendar, 150 individuals signed up within minutes.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
What would happen is the disruption of critical infrastructure within minutes and at a devastating scale.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025
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Carter Popkin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
Case in point: when the store sent out a discount offer to new University of Virginia and Piedmont Community College students at the beginning of the 2024-25 academic calendar, 150 individuals signed up within minutes.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
What would happen is the disruption of critical infrastructure within minutes and at a devastating scale.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Related Articles 2 brush fires at Aurora park, open space started within minutes, officials say
Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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