immediate
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My immediate knee-jerk reaction to your portfolio is that you have nearly 39% of your total holdings in stocks, which is OK.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
Real purchased peak Zizou and got an immediate delivery on their dough that season.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Bringing colleagues along is Warsh’s job, he said, “and it’s hard to believe that consensus would be around an immediate rate cut, just given the state of the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida announced her immediate resignation ahead of a scheduled disciplinary hearing by the House Ethics Committee, which had been weighing potential sanctions over a string of campaign finance violations.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
And—though the immediate danger was apparently gone—there was no guarantee that it wouldn’t surface again a year, twenty years, fifty years from now.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing immediate
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Unit 1: Ecological Systems
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 18
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