in its own time
idiom
: at the time that is right or appropriate for one and not sooner
Everything happens in its own time.
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Just down the block, travelers can explore another coastal town, Olhão, which should be in its own time zone, as here, everyone lives at their own pace.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2025
The painting on the cover serves as a perfect metaphor for the themes of the book: that what appears fragmented is still part of a whole; that love, like fruit, ripens in its own time.
—Claire Adam, People.com, 28 July 2025
Much of the work of the civil rights movement was unpopular in its own time.
— Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 The stopwatch started on rap’s postmodern era with Chief Keef’s Almighty So, released in late 2013—an obscure-sounding record misconstrued in its own time, whose intuitive style would inform just about every major rap trend in the decade to come.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Whether or not it’s remembered as a movie that didn’t get its due in its own time is something that awards voters this year will have to decide for themselves.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024
What fortitude may be gathered from a feeling unfelt in its own time?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Honestly, each feature happened naturally in its own time.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Often ineffective in its own time, their moral example can be the basis of national reconstruction and renewal once the occupation or dictatorship comes to an end.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2025
The painting on the cover serves as a perfect metaphor for the themes of the book: that what appears fragmented is still part of a whole; that love, like fruit, ripens in its own time.
—Claire Adam, People.com, 28 July 2025
Much of the work of the civil rights movement was unpopular in its own time.
— Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 The stopwatch started on rap’s postmodern era with Chief Keef’s Almighty So, released in late 2013—an obscure-sounding record misconstrued in its own time, whose intuitive style would inform just about every major rap trend in the decade to come.
—Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Whether or not it’s remembered as a movie that didn’t get its due in its own time is something that awards voters this year will have to decide for themselves.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024
What fortitude may be gathered from a feeling unfelt in its own time?
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Honestly, each feature happened naturally in its own time.
—Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Often ineffective in its own time, their moral example can be the basis of national reconstruction and renewal once the occupation or dictatorship comes to an end.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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“In its own time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20its%20own%20time. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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