fast
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The fast stream programme recruits between around 700 and 1,400 people each year, who are then placed across different government departments.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Researchers in Japan have captured an extraordinarily fast electronic transformation inside a metal-organic framework, observing a fleeting state and the hidden state that followed within just 30 femtoseconds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
It is remarkably fast, and by its maker’s arithmetic, cheap to run.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s not about having to squat 500 pounds but more being able to run and have fast legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
This shin thing will heal just as fast, if it’s even a thing at all.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The mayor ran on a campaign platform of affordability, pledging to raise taxes to cover services like universal child care, and free and faster buses.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
But they have proliferated since rising rates pulled down pension plans’ obligations faster than their assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the latest sign of pressures, new-home prices dropped at a faster pace in July than the previous month, official data released this week showed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Case in point: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” just smashed domestic records with a $360-million debut in North America, crossing the $800-million mark faster than any movie, ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
In a long run my dogs could outdistance him—they can cover close to twenty miles in an hour—but in a short run moose could run much faster.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Red Bull's Max Verstappen could manage only 11th fastest, while his team-mate Liam Lawson, promoted from Racing Bulls after regular driver Isack Hadjar broke his wrist while boxing, was 14th.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Thompson ran the 40 in a blistering 4.26 seconds, tying him for the fastest at the 2026 combine and the third-fastest time by a wide receiver at the combine since 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“This is the fastest VW bus on the island,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
That is 100,000 times faster than a commercial airplane, or more than eight percent of the speed of light, making it the fastest star ever detected in our galaxy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
She said softly, “That’s got to be the fastest horse in Cold Sassy. Maybe the fastest in Georgia.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The streets were busy with shoppers who had broken their fasts ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Still, scientists have had only a limited understanding of exactly how the body responds during longer fasts.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
In the following years, they built a flourishing movement fighting for farmworkers’ rights, employing marches, fasts and other nonviolent protest actions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
He wants others to better understand why he fasts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
The morning air was hazy with the smoke of cookfires, as three thousand men sat down to break their fasts beneath the banners of their lords.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He said that he did go to the mosque every Friday, and that he prayed and fasted and raised his children to be good Muslims.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
In came the resistance bands, dead lifts, dumbbells and agility drills, plus a private chef who got a sweet break from 8 p.m. until noon the next day, as Doncic intermittently fasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
When the rats fasted or received insulin, the sensors tracked cytokine levels as they drifted down.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
He was joined by thousands who fasted with him and held demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
She didn't drink alcohol or eat pork, and she always fasted during Ramadan.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Among non-Hispanic white participants, fasting glucose readings of 126 milligrams per deciliter or lower were associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It was actually quite an interesting time to be there, and realising how important religion is to the people of Morocco and how seriously they take the fasting ritual," Smith said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is the fasting warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Now he had lost them, he possessed none of them any more, neither fasting, nor waiting, nor thinking.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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