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Over the longer term, the technology could support industries that depend on extremely fast information processing, including autonomous driving, next-generation communications, and quantum technologies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
At the time, he said the company needed to be more agile and technologically-enabled due to the fast pace of the industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He was forcibly removed from the protest site by the police on Saturday and taken to hospital where he continues to fast.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
If something does, the calculus on both sides could shift fast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The river ran fast and smooth on its way to the falls.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Much of this will stem from technological improvements and innovation, the implementation of blockchain for faster settlement and the adoption of AI for efficiency and productivity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
True, Richemont’s top line is growing faster at the moment, but the good news looks priced in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
This is because other sectors are switching to renewable energy faster, and aviation has no realistic alternative to jet fuel from oil.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
It remains exposed to the undisturbed solar wind, allowing faster particles to penetrate farther into the lunar soil.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
“You will reach the harbor and a ship. If you hurry, you may catch up with Patch. You will move faster than they can.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world, and Europe is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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
But every so often — usually when the ground is shifting fastest — those invisible choices decide your returns.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Speaking of respect: The hill climb festivities are, in fact, a competition, featuring the world’s fastest cars being driven by a host of famous drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
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
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
Between 1918 and his assassination in 1948, Gandhi fasted repeatedly - against religious violence, caste discrimination and political discord - turning the empty plate into one of the defining symbols of India's freedom struggle.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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
We fasted for three days, longer than we ever had before.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
The early fasting group followed an eight hour window beginning before 10:00 a.m.
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
No country has woven fasting into its political life quite like India.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
But the nuns are fasting now, eating only bread with salt and water.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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