breakneck
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Militaries worldwide are grappling with breakneck technological change and the lessons from Ukraine and the Persian Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
A legal fight between MP Materials and USA Rare Earth complicates the breakneck effort to loosen China’s hold over critical materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
China's economy -- second in size only to that of the United States -- has struggled in recent years to keep up with the breakneck pace of development it maintained in previous decades.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
There’s a wonderful verve to Early’s filmmaking, allowing what would otherwise come off as breakneck tonal shifts to feel remarkably earned.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Through technological advances in communication our planet is in the final stages of being bound up at a breakneck pace into a single global society.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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