adverb
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in a short time; soon
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in a few words; briefly
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in a curt or rude manner
Etymology
Origin of shortly
First recorded before 900; Middle English schortly, Old English scortlīce; short, -ly
Example Sentences
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The boosters disconnect from the Core Stage shortly after liftoff.
A project to address the issues associated with the informal miners formalized much of Mutoshi’s work shortly after that visit, but those efforts were halted due to Covid.
They were engaged shortly thereafter, followed by an intimate wedding at her mother’s estate in Southampton.
From Los Angeles Times
The model also predicts a minimum level of primordial gravitational waves, which are tiny ripples in spacetime created shortly after the Big Bang.
From Science Daily
The condolence video was released after an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia airport in New York shortly after landing, killing Forest and another pilot, Mackenzie Gunther.
From BBC
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