time-release
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In 1995, the Food and Drug Administration approved OxyContin, a time-release version of the painkiller oxycodone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
A time-release fertiliser supplies nutrients, light comes from LEDs and the astronauts add water.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2020
It might also be accomplished through chemical tags that regulate which liposomes can fuse together, or through a time-release system.
From Nature ● Nov. 6, 2018
“What’s critically important for most of the water we rely on in California is that time-release snowpack storage,” said Dr. Swain.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
Like Serial and the riveting true-crime documentary The Staircase, The Jinx metes out information like a time-release capsule, turning each episode into a series of revelations and the audience into detectives.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2015
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