fast
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While Figma works with all sorts of AI models, the company has been growing usage of its own model to deliver fast and affordable results.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Even as AI agents are fast becoming the biggest users of enterprise data, Regev said only a fraction of companies have the necessary governance in place to control what these agents can access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
St. Monica’s success shows how schools new to a sport can get up and running fast with organization and participation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In principle, a sufficiently fast spinning black hole could overcome the usual thermodynamic restriction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
I sat up, half raised, afraid to move fast lest she panic and run back into the wolves.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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The company also plans to implement a restructuring program faster than it previously anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Oil is in “freefall” as markets price in a faster path to restored Strait of Hormuz crude flows, rather than another round of escalation, according to Raj.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Bosses at Freedom Leisure, the site's operator, said staffing and energy bills were rising faster than income as Worcester City Council were asked to approve the new prices.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"This highly positive response to the program opens up more significant potential to faster streamline our structures."
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
I will my legs to move faster, tripping over the uneven sidewalk while the tears I refused to give him chase each other down my cheeks.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The country is Southeast Asia's fastest growing hub for new data centres -- warehouse-like buildings crammed with servers that can train and run AI tools such as chatbots and image generators.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Amazon Web Services revenue rose 39% in the September quarter, its fastest pace in nearly five years.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
This was actually less than employers’ own healthcare costs, which rose 6.4% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the fastest in at least a decade, according to the Labor Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The U.S. economy expanded at its fastest clip in more than five years during the third quarter, according to the Commerce Department’s initial reading on third-quarter gross domestic product.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere,” the woman says.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Some fasts last only hours; others are carefully staged media spectacles with banners, platforms and live television coverage.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Bishnoi meditates every morning and fasts many days of the month, the cousin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Other recent studies on prolonged fasting have also found that the body enters a deep ketogenic state during multi day fasts, dramatically changing how cells use fuel.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Bonta, who intermittently fasts and tries not to eat before noon, was sticking to black coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
He was a silent, brooding man, given to fasts and contemplation, going often, alone, into the caves of the mountains, in the section of Virginia where he lived.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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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
I have fasted now one day, and my belly screams, A week!
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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"We lived a quiet normal life, fasting for a few days then having a small meal," Shukrani said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Research suggests that intermittent fasting may improve blood-sugar control in people with Type 2 diabetes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
And influencers’ claims that intermittent fasting is an “effortless” solution to weight loss are overhyped — most people probably would not consider 16 hours without eating to be “effortless” or easy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
After Wangchuk and others were moved to hospital, Neha continued fasting despite having lost 8kg.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The radio announcer said Gandhi spent his birthday fasting and spinning yarn on his wheel.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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