in/within the space of
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: before the end of (a stated time) : in (a stated time) or less
They finished in/within the space of an hour.
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Kim’s appearance at the Singapore summit led to five meetings with Xi in the space of 12 months, because Xi was forced to treat Kim as something closer to an equal given the importance Trump placed on engaging with the North Korean leader.
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John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
And inequality constraints would give you whole big open sets in the space of possible universes.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2025
Or vacillating between tariffs of 145% to 30% in the space of a month, as happened recently with Chinese imports.
—Michael Barclay, Quartz, 28 May 2025
And neither character feels as fully developed in that time as Joel’s dad and Gene did within the space of a few minutes apiece in the last episode.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2025
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John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
And inequality constraints would give you whole big open sets in the space of possible universes.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 29 May 2025
Or vacillating between tariffs of 145% to 30% in the space of a month, as happened recently with Chinese imports.
—Michael Barclay, Quartz, 28 May 2025
And neither character feels as fully developed in that time as Joel’s dad and Gene did within the space of a few minutes apiece in the last episode.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2025
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“In/within the space of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%2Fwithin%20the%20space%20of. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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