fast
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You just have to click as fast as a “Jeopardy!” contestant to grab it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
As his condition has deteriorated in the past few days, opposition leaders, activists, Bollywood actors and musicians have called on Wangchuk to end his fast.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But she declined unusually fast and lost that opportunity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It’s appropriate if you want to clean fast and you don’t care about the trees,” said arborist Nick Araya.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
In one rolling motion—the muscles seemed to move within the skin so fast that I couldn’t take half a breath—he turned and came for me.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
The company said this year's hot weather had meant during peak periods "water has been used faster than it can be treated and moved through parts of the network, placing additional pressure on local supplies".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
But private money managers have been conjuring up new debt instruments faster than thinly stretched state insurance commissioners can rein them in, and the regulatory process sometimes resembles a game of whac-a-mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
I saw talented teams like South Korea collapse under pressure and my beloved Mexico valiantly fall against an English squad that was taller, faster and just better — for now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"While this method has significantly faster reaction kinetics than cavitation, it also consumes far more energy per volume unit," Reinecke notes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
His sneakers made squeaky noises the faster he walked.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
A spokesperson said: "We continue to believe that the L&VW plan is by far the fastest and most reliable route to solving Thames Water's complex problems and improving outcomes for customers and the environment."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Those categories where the price rises are fastest are in video/ audio, financial services, medical services and airfares/ transportation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Leclerc was second fastest after the first runs, just 0.053secs slower than Antonelli, but Ferrari could not maintain that pace and neither he nor Hamilton improved on their second attempts.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
According to the WHO, the rate of recorded infections in July has been the fastest in any previous Ebola outbreak, including some 80 cases in a single day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The outermost planets, Jupiter and Saturn, moved the fastest and made the highest-pitched notes.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
Nat fasts for 20 hours a day, to improve his mental clarity, he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Bonta, who intermittently fasts and tries not to eat before noon, was sticking to black coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
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
He was joined by thousands who fasted with him and held demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
The researchers either fasted young and old fish for a few days or fed them twice a day.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
When he caught a fever, she stayed up all night, and fasted for three days.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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
The late fasting group used an eight hour window beginning after 1:00 p.m.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Its work includes investigating intermittent fasting as a treatment for obesity and associated health problems, along with studying whether bone markers can help predict cardiovascular risk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
In a landmark speech in 1949, he argued that once constitutional avenues existed, methods such as fasting and civil disobedience should give way to democratic processes, warning that otherwise they became the "grammar of anarchy".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
His life was always directed by the art of thinking, waiting and fasting.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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