momentarily

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• Farmers, seed manufacturers, real estate developers and a few homeowners benefit, at least momentarily, but the gap between what the climate can destroy and what money can replace is growing.

• Besides our vigilance about masking, it was a momentarily magical return to the before times.

• The exchanged gluon might momentarily split into a “virtual” quark pair, for instance, before reconstituting itself in a flash.

• Magnetic resonance imaging uses a powerful magnetic field to align protons in a patient’s body in a certain direction and then uses radio waves to momentarily knock these protons out of alignment.

• During rapid eye movements, the brain momentarily blinds us so that we don’t see our surroundings jump.

• Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

• When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss.

• While attempting to pull a bin of canned food toward him, Bob is momentarily pulled underwater by a walker sneak-attack.

• They are told that this event is important, and they may, momentarily, set aside their skepticism.

• Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

• He had been forgetting care; was speaking gaily to his wife as they entered.