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In this important event, I can only focus on how whoever wrote that doesn't know what "momentarily" means.

Ah, are you British? This is North American usage. Here is the New Oxford American English dictionary’s definition, second sense:

> North American at any moment; very soon: my husband will be here to pick me up momentarily.

Now that you know that this is correct usage of the word, perhaps it will be less distracting the next time you see it used that way.

It's worse than I thought, then.

I sympathize. Everyone has a few words or phrases with incorrect usages stuck in their heads. For me it’s “fall through”, which feels like it should mean the opposite of what it does mean. I think that idea got stuck in my head because of the phrase “come through”, which implies success.

I love it when someone calls out someone for not knowing grammar or spelling or the definition of a word, when they themselves are wrong.

https://reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect is a treasure trove of such cases

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