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careen

[kuh-reen] / kəˈrin /
VERB
tilt; move wildly down path
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While recording in a park one evening, Jack picks up the sound of a car tire exploding before he sees the vehicle careen off the road and into a creek.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

Even the slightest misstep made me feel like I was about to careen out of control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

A daunting prospect after mechanical failure caused his Lotus car to careen into barriers at 160mph in Jerez in 1990.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The more worrisome sign came when the bond market began to careen off the edge.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2025

Chains of girls careen past, chanting We don’t stop for anybody.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

It was a somber reminder of how far apart the two sides are as baseball careens toward a labor apocalypse that seems all but inevitable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

As the tram careens past, a delivery man can been seen leaping to safety from his bicycle, while a passerby also races out of the way.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

His experience, he said, has taught him how to mitigate the damage done when an opposing team member careens into you.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025

While Cranston is not playing himself — although, he has on other occasions — he does strip himself of all vanity to portray Griffin Mill losing his ever-loving mind as he careens through the Venetian.

From Salon ● May 15, 2025

It glances off a shimmering purple shield, though, and careens off to the side.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Two systems that could have slowed an Amazon Air flight that crashed in Miami over the weekend weren’t deployed before the plane careened off a runway and crashed into nearby vehicles, investigators said late Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Bass has never lost an election and won’t easily fold, even as her first term has careened from one crisis to another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The Truman on the same deployment careened into a civilian ship, generating another report, which mentions issues such as ship watch standers “in a two-section rotation with only 60% manning, leading to excessive fatigue.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Police were on scene Monday afternoon in Granada Hills after a Tesla driver lost control and careened into the Ali Baba Persian Restaurant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026

Now she careened toward Jinny too, in her lopsided gait.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

But here’s what excites me most about the brave new world of mathematics the A.I. industry has us careening toward: We will have a much sharper sense of what the truly difficult problems are.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

How much can one film really change a world that seems like it’s careening faster and faster toward annihilation?

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Weeks later, heavy rains sent mud and debris careening into the canyon, burying sections of the camp in feet of dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

A moment later he’s bounding into the kitchen fully dressed, as if he’d pulled on his clothes while careening down the steep wooden staircase of our drafty Victorian house.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman




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