fast
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Further measures announced by the government include a new civil service fast stream pilot for local authority roles in Yorkshire and Humber.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Møller’s heartless captain has even less personality but he does scamper impressively fast up the mast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
How did Chinese AI labs get so far so fast?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Those years will creep up fast, but you’re on top of it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Before I got to the bluff, a sled came up fast behind me.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
"It is growing faster and wider than the Ebola response," he is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The practice is growing as it becomes faster, cheaper and easier for employers to post jobs online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
AI allowed Levanon to obtain information faster and in more organized form.
From MarketWatch ● 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
I enjoyed it and it helped make the eleven-hour workday go faster.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
Astronomers have discovered the fastest star in the Milky Way zooming at 25,000 kilometres a second around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Savannah was the fastest counter, and this boy Jacob was the slowest.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Some fasts last only hours; others are carefully staged media spectacles with banners, platforms and live television coverage.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
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
Bonta, who intermittently fasts and tries not to eat before noon, was sticking to black coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Other cities, too, called for fasts to ofler up their corporate orisons; and, sensible of our distress, they sent flour and rice.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Wangchuk fasted in scorching heat in the capital, Delhi, for 26 days in June and July, consuming only salt and water.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
These individuals typically ate their first meal after 14:00 and fasted for about 17 hours.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 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
They isolated themselves and fasted for a while.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Fasting, or controlled deprivation of food, is linked to a longer and healthier lifespan," says Dr Longo, who has spent three decades studying the effects of fasting.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
According to the research team, even a 12 week period of intermittent fasting could provide an effective medium term option for weight management among adults who are overweight or obese.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
He would have been fasting for months while waiting for the sea ice to re-form, but he was still twice as big as the bear that had wrecked them before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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