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Brought suddenly face to face with the moment, the moment was a little too big for them.

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  1. noun A brief, indefinite interval of time.
  2. noun A specific point in time, especially the present time: He is not here at the moment.
  3. noun A particular period of importance, influence, or significance in a series of events or developments: a great moment in history; waiting for her big moment.
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  • Our big concern at the moment is a virus called H5N1 flu. —  Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu
  • So what you'll see in a moment is a very simple biped that's learning how to walk using artificial evolution. —  Torsten Reil builds better animations
  • Ignored for the moment was the fact that Burris had been rejected by the voters in three straight Illinois Democratic gubernatorial races and in one primary for mayor of Chicago. —  Daily News-Record
  • These days, his masonry project for the moment is his own: A rough-hewn, post-and-beam stoneman's cottage on his property adjacent to Pioneer Park in Nevada City. —  The Union - All Categories
  • They wanted to be the "end all, be all" of it all and they can't stand to see another-that's why I said, you know it's colored folks and Negroes hate to see one of our own succeeding, because they feel like their moment was their moment, you know what I mean?
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time ·  feel ·  minute ·  point ·  scene ·  life ·  word ·  thing ·  light ·  sign ·  man

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōmentum, from *movimentum; see momentum.

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  1. from French moment = Spanish Portuguese Italian momento, a moment, from Latin momentum, a balance, balancing, alteration, a particle sufficient to turn the scales, hence a particle, point, point of time, short time, moment, a cause, circumstance, matter, weight, influence; contr. of *mov(i)mentum, from movere, move: see move, v. Cf. movement.
  2. from moment, n.
 

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