Collocations withmoment
These are words often used in combination withmoment.
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anxious moments
I imagine all of us who are concerned have been giving anxious moments of thought as to what can be done.
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awkward moment
It really is an awkward moment for us.
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brief moment
Nor is it defined by its ability to present visual stimuli for a brief moment or to facilitate reaction time measurement.
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climactic moment
Yet at the expected climactic moment of the final phrase, the entire ensemble suddenly retreats, leaving only the slide guitar.
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closing moments
So on the first occasion that they were ever performed to an audience, the closing moments of the drama were presented in absolute silence.
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critical moment
The conclusion phase is a critical moment in terms of face wants.
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crucial moment
Disagreement exists as to the crucial moment in the emergence of a populist radical nationalism.
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decisive moment
It was usually regarded as a decisive moment when a patient's emotional problems were reconfigured and a return to emotional health begun.
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dramatic moment
This represented a dramatic moment of instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change.
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embarrassing moment
Closing as an embarrassing moment to both sales agents and prospects.
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exact moment
Embryos explanted at the late 1-cell stage were observed in vitro to check the exact moment at which they entered the 2-cell stage.
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final moment
And at that time, in the final moment of the forced motion, the body will be neither heavy nor light.
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fleeting moment
For a fleeting moment, one could capture a state of congruence between self and world.
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given moment
A configuration may be understood as the sets of words that are present in any node at a given moment.
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historic moment
At first, there may have been merit in his demand that the ideology and its practitioners be precisely set into the 'historic moment ' and allowed to speak for themselves.
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historical moment
Significantly, at the very same historical moment, another series of photographs of nationalist leaders was also being put into public circulation.
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inopportune moment
The 1882 census, for example, was taken at the most inopportune moment.
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intimate moment
His artistic endeavours no longer concerned themselves with physical accuracy, seeking only to capture the essence of an intangible, personal and intimate moment.
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just moments
Fish in a pond turn their white belly upwards just moments before they die.
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magic moment
Ultimately, recognising the very real category of magic moment as an aspect of most people's musical experiences can serve to provide a new analytic starting point.
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magical moment
I think he was saying that, for a magical moment, we shall be in stage 2, and then—whoosh—into stage 3.
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memorable moment
It was a very memorable moment during this afternoon's debate.
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moment of conception
Furthermore, as we will see, the moment of conception is not a neutral event in people's lives and can have a significant effect on subsequent health outcomes.
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moment of despair
In a moment of despair and recklessness they enlist.
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moment of glory
The shipyard workers are being told that they have had their moment of glory and now they are to be given very little hope.
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moment of reflection
In both instances, some moment of reflection on the part of the citizens serves to weaken their opinions rather than to reinforce them.
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moment of silence
A moment of silence followed.
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odd moment
But this odd moment works on a different, more intertextual, level as well.
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opportune moment
This new journal is launched at a very opportune moment.
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particular moment
The conventions of artistic production become relative, defined only at a particular moment in time from one particular standpoint.
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pivotal moment
Thus, it was a pivotal moment common to the agrarian and solar year cycles.
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poignant moment
This is also a poignant moment for me.
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precise moment
Without evidence that a child knows the conventional name at the precise moment of labelling, the interpretation that children are making mistakes is still possible.
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present moment
Thus, although the performer uses real actions, the present moment of the performance is arguably always an illusion of the real.
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propitious moment
The beginning of the 1990s proved to be a very propitious moment for such an initiative.
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proud moment
It was an extremely proud moment for someone like me, who has a somewhat international background.
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quiet moment
They share a quiet moment as the world crumbles around them.
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rare moment
It is a rare moment, but one which prefigures the end of the work.
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seminal moment
Nevertheless, it should be viewed as a seminal moment for gender mainstreaming, as women are now taken into account in security and peacekeeping operations.
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solemn moment
It is an extremely solemn moment for most couples.
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spare moment
He set up an elaborate arrangement of mirrors and, believe it or not, sat in front of them, whenever he had a spare moment, for nine years.
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tense moment
I know that this is a tense moment, but tense as it is, sometimes one relaxes, and this thought has occurred to me.
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touching moment
According to the participants, it was striking and touching moment.
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unguarded moment
Yet when a "scion of this family, in an unguarded moment," had stepped from "the paths of rectitude," he had started a line of mental defectives.
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very moment
What makes me one person at this very moment?
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waking moment
Are they to watch their sons and daughters every waking moment?
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watershed moment
Nevertheless, these competencies have brought us to a watershed moment in residency, and by extension, in medical education.
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