moment

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6. the last moment
     if you do something at the last moment or if something happens at the last moment,
     it happens at the last possible time:
  at the last moment
     The operation was cancelled at the last moment.
  leave ... to the last moment
     She always leaves everything to the last moment.
  

7. (at)any moment  
      extremely soon:
    The plumber should be here any moment now.
    The roof could collapse at any moment.

    He's arriving every moment

8. OPPORTUNITY [usually singular] a particular time when you have a chance to do something:
     His wife Denise was there to share his big moment(=opportunity to do something great).
   choose/pick your moment (=try to choose the best time to do something)
     He picked his moment carefully to tell them the news.
     This was her moment and she knew she had to take it. 

9. moment of madness/weakness/panic etc
     a short period of time when you do not feel or behave as normal and
     often do or say something which you later wish you had not done or said:
   in a moment of sth
     In a moment of madness I agreed to go with him.
     He experienced a brief moment of panic.

10 one moment ... the next / from one moment to the next
     used to say that a situation changes very suddendly, often in a way which you do not expect
     or cannot explain:
   One moment she's kissing me, the next she doesn't want to see me again.
   You never know what's going to happen from one moment to the next.