Timeline for When I talk about a very short time, is it idiomatic and clear to use "time point" "time frame" to describe time? Is there a more appropriate term?
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| Sep 17, 2019 at 6:46 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @LorelC. Synonyms almost never always mean the same thing in every context. Generally speaking, you can take any two words that are synonyms and find some context in which they can't be interchanged. Finding this example sentence is no different. That aside (although it's not the case in this example), some synonyms do mean the same thing but can't just be dropped into the same sentence as the words they replace; in order to use them, you need to rephrase the sentence. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 4:10 | comment | added | Lorel C. | singularli has given a perfect example showing that "right now" and "currently" aren't synonyms: "Turn around currently!".... no, not the same as "Turn around right now." | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 4:03 | history | answered | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |