fast
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We set that standard launching free, fast Wi-Fi that forced the industry to adopt it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"It was like a blink, and at the same time it was intense, it went so fast," Vaccarello told CNN during an interview to mark his ten years at the brand in May.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Created by “Twin Peaks” veteran Harley Peyton, it also hits on an important, body-affirming message: Reginald, who was played by Jacob Batalon, wasn’t super strong or super fast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
This would constrain how fast their own property-tax bills grew.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
I could never remember that I was wearing long skirts now, and Betsie spent many evenings mending the rips I put in them when I moved too fast.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The future moves faster than a film in development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
By the time he left, he was the viral Norseman who’d set the tournament ablaze, scoring seven goals in five matches at a faster clip than Lionel Messi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The cost of raising a family has gotten significantly more expensive over the last decade, rising faster than wages.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Cartilage begins to break down faster than it can be replaced, eventually allowing bones to rub against one another.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
We run faster than we were going at the end of the 10K and reach the end of the trail in record time.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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It need not fly, but it had better be the fastest car on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
At a time when innovation and enterprise have never been so abundant, the companies that grow the most and the fastest still tend to outperform, according to James.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
FlyDubai has been one of the world’s fastest expanding airlines, nearly doubling its staff since the pandemic to become the go-to low-cost carrier for a travel-hungry region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In diligent, exhausted Japan, self-described elite "competitive sleepers" vied to lie down, relax and nap the fastest and deepest in a contest organised by a mattress company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
This was Hermod, called the Nimble, Odin’s attendant, the fastest and the most daring of the young gods.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Along with co-op facilities, he also purchased a plot of land in Delano to house the union’s first headquarters and learned how to handle media amid Chávez’s historic fasts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Bishnoi meditates every morning and fasts many days of the month, the cousin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Still, scientists have had only a limited understanding of exactly how the body responds during longer fasts.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
The Beeches Primary School in Peterborough said about 30 Muslim children in the years 5 and 6 were observing the fasts, during which they refrain from eating between dawn and dusk.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
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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
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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After Wangchuk and others were moved to hospital, Neha continued fasting despite having lost 8kg.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
As the fasting period went on, their movement gradually increased again.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ketone bodies also appear during fasting or very low-calorie diets, when the body must draw on stored fat for energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
However he explained some were losing weight too quickly by fasting for long periods which was not sustainable.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ocean thought Navid was hilarious, and I tried to explain that he wasn’t doing a bit, that Navid was really just, like, super annoying when he was fasting, and Ocean shrugged.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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