fast
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"For Chinese companies increasingly shut out of Western exchanges, Hong Kong is fast becoming the only realistic path to market," Deglise-Favre said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
In July, Musk talked up Tesla’s progress, telling investors that the company was “going as fast as humanly possible” to scale the robotaxi operation without creating safety risks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Its primary appeal to customers was fast fashion at dirt-cheap prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Over the last couple of decades, the forest’s surroundings have developed fast: 200,000 new homes have been built around Bordeaux.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The bear couldn’t have moved that fast, she thought numbly.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"The longer it takes, the more our hope dies. This operation must move much faster because every second is meaningful to us," Jiban Khadka, whose relative is also trapped inside the plant, told Kantipur.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The new generation of jet-powered Geran drones reaches speeds of about 300 miles an hour, roughly three times faster than previous versions of the drone, making them harder to intercept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Nominal GDP is also growing faster than the money supply, which means the velocity of money, or nominal GDP divided by the money supply, is rising.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
"To make the rescue operation easier and faster, the teams are simultaneously using heavy equipment, carrying out blasting, and widening the opening."
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
It didn’t make the raft go much faster, but Alex felt better doing something.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
Combined employment in manufacturing and construction jobs, for example, grew at 2.5% Y-o-Y in June, its fastest pace since 2014,” says Colvin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
This year the Swiss has registered three of the 10 fastest times in history.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Over the season as a whole so far, the Mercedes is the fastest car in qualifying by an average of 0.316 seconds over Ferrari, with McLaren a further 0.041secs adrift.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Export orders rose at the fastest pace since February 2022—the month that Russia launched its invasion—which in part reflected demand from data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
He alternated between doing the crawl, which was fastest, and the breaststroke, which was slower but allowed him to see where he was going and to see what else was floating toward him.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Sriramulu, a quiet Gandhian who had already undertaken several fasts for social causes, believed only self-sacrifice could force Delhi to listen.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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
Six Flags Qiddiya City recently hosted iftar celebrations that marked the end of the daily Ramadan fasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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
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
The same year, 1988, she fasted in solidarity with her grandfather to protest the use of pesticides on table grapes, and passed out fliers about the issue to grocery store customers in Fresno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
They isolated themselves and fasted for a while.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
Physical activity was particularly associated with slower cognitive decline among Hispanic participants, while lower fasting blood glucose levels were linked to slower cognitive decline among non-Hispanic white participants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is the fasting warming content, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
But not all obesity specialists are persuaded that fasting is the right approach for children.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
I asked, hoping that my teacher and I would be spending more time together now that he was finished fasting with the spirits alone.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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