Instantly and Shortly

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Instantly adverb - Without delay.

Usage example: showed leadership by reacting instantly to the crisis

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Shortly and instantly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shortly" instead an adverb "Instantly".

Shortly adverb - At or within a short time.

Usage example: the meeting will begin shortly, so don't go too far away to find a bathroom

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Instantly and shortly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instantly" instead an adverb "Shortly".

Nearby Word: shorten

It's surprising, then, that another cloaked figure nicknamed "R" instantly recognizes Stocke despite the cloak shortly after that scene.

Source: Video Game / Radiant Historia
Once injected into the dying people, it instantly cures them and everything shortly thereafter has returned to normal, with no lasting ill effects.

Source: No Ontological Inertia
He regenerates almost instantly from almost any wound, but burns out his life and dies shortly afterwards.

Source: Manga / Trigun aka: Tri Gun

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