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breakneck

adjective as in extremely fast

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That uncertainty, which comes with untold economic repercussions, contributed to a slower-than-usual free agent market this winter — but one that now appears to have entered a final, breakneck phase.

Founded in October 2017, the upstart coffee chain grew at an apparently breakneck pace to overtake Starbucks as China’s biggest bean-brew slinger by the start of the year.

From Fortune

Uggla built up the company through a breakneck series of acquisitions, culminating in the 2016 merger with IHS.

From Fortune

Nature’s agonizingly slow process of discovery, driven by cosmological and biological evolution on time scales of millions and billions of years, is accelerated to breakneck speeds in the laboratory.

Strangely, this is happening at a time when vaccine science in general seems to be advancing at breakneck speed.

From Fortune

Best Buy is caught up in the breakneck world of technological innovation.

Democrats set out to woo a national network of extremely wealthy donors who could support the new breakneck fundraising pace.

Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

Then try to get a ticket for a Maple Leafs match, to watch the breakneck brutality in action.

To maintain its breakneck growth, it almost has to look for younger members.

It was really a breakneck sort of excursion, which is very rarely made even by the officers, and certainly never by ladies.

This coach, of course, traveled by relays, and at what was then considered breakneck speed.

With a grin the cabman touched his cap, the door banged, and the hansom set off as if the fare were in a breakneck hurry.

Mounted orderlies were dashing at breakneck speed between the Presidio and the city.

Sara Lee heard his car going at its usual breakneck speed up the street, and went to the door.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breakneck, such as: headlong, rapid, at full tilt, dangerously fast, excessive, and flat out.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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