hasty
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Hearts, who had been chasing a first title since 1960, made the decision to make a hasty exit from the stadium, citing a "menacing and threatening atmosphere".
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
What follows is a story told in hasty paragraphs, pithy fragments and cynical dispatches from a conspiracy theory-infested America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
The horrific allegations against both Gonzales and Swalwell comfortably met the bar for hasty resolution.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Clothes, medicines, food, shoes, blankets and sheets were scattered on the floors and tables of the houses, evidence of a hasty search.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
He pronounced a hasty benediction: “Heavenly Father please make me a powerful instrument of Thy perfect will here in the Belgian Congo. Amen.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The FDA reached its decision in 97 days, about 40 percent of the usual timeline for such a review, but wisely refused to be browbeat into a hastier conclusion.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
Other nations, reckoning with their own wrongdoings, have been far hastier to arrive at this point.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2017
"The Delhi government is already working toward tackling this situation and now that we've picked up this report, the government will take hastier steps to tackle the situation," A.K.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2012
Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here and there a grinning head cast up suddenly out of the press seemed like the broken crest of some hastier wave impatient with his fellows; so they snarled, jostled, and snapped at each other.
From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2020
It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no time for anything but the hastiest of preparations.
From The Fire People by Cummings, Ray
Even the hastiest survey of that long and interesting period enables the student to notice a marked development in the theory and practice of excommunication.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing hasty
A Need for Speed: Synonyms for "Fast"
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Vocabulary from the Songs of The Spice Girls
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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter
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