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split second

Noun

Meaning

a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second - comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all. Andy Warhol

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often. Steve Maraboli

So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic. Lee Child

For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again. Miranda July

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. Duke Snider

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