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by the moment en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Very quickly as time passes; progressively.
    • He's getting crazier by the moment. 2009, Chuck Hughes, The Wedjat, page 215:
    • But this war was being thrust on us, and our situation was becoming more dangerous by the moment. 2002, Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff, Warrior: An Autobiography, page 184:
    • She clasped her hands in front of her chest. “I'm feeling luckier by the moment.” 2013, Donna Kauffman, Sugar Rush, page 138:
  2. (idiomatic) Focused on the present moment; in the present.
    • I gauged my understanding by comparing the expressions which registered on people's faces with what was occurring by the moment in my own inner reactions to the talk. 2009, Muhyiddin Shakoor, The Writing On The Water:
    • Now, in hindsight, I see the far-reaching effects this focus on God had on my life and on the miracles I experienced by the moment. 2022, Larry Huch, Tiz Huch, Miracles by the Moment, page 227:
    • They do not live by the moment; they do not make soul and body conform to God's time, which is the present moment. 1875 November, J. E. M., “Living By the Moment”, in The Advocate of Christian Holiness, volume 6, number 5, page 105: