breakneck
Example Sentences
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China's economy and tech have grown at breakneck speed, but there is plenty worrying its Gen Z, from jobs to romantic prospects to the sheer pressure of keeping up.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But he said he assumed that governments would coordinate to slow down the breakneck pace of development if it were ever necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
And analysts said it forced traders to reassess their outlook for the speed of development in the industry following years of breakneck growth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The titans of the booming artificial-intelligence industry have sounded a three-alarm fire, warning that AI poses an existential risk to the human race and urging a global slowdown in the breakneck pace of development.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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
