fast
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"Such therapeutics could deliver the fast and lasting antidepressant benefits of psychedelics while eliminating hallucinogenic side effects -- making neuroplasticity treatments safer, more scalable, and accessible to a broader patient population."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
"Romance readers read really fast and they read a lot," explained Sarriot.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
Nee was elected to take over as Weil’s chair in January but stepped aside as the firm, where she worked for more than 20 years, unraveled fast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
“That was the fast track to figure out if they could do what we needed, or not.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
He muttered a quick warning to the tree’s spirit to find another home fast, then started to chop.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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The post-World War II geopolitical landscape is reconstructing itself faster than the Ginza district, which was devastated in the last film and continues to look like a battlefield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Winfrey said the company is aiming to return to internet customer growth and become a simpler, faster and more agile organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The New York Times Company’s quarterly revenue gained as the company added digital subscribers at a faster clip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
That lap was 1.6 seconds faster than Ocon's and team insiders say he simply could not accept that he had been that much slower.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Alex stared out and tried not to notice that her stomach was diving faster than the plane.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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In the summer, when Lando Norris took his two wins in Hungary and the Netherlands, they were briefly the fastest team.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
That means even the fastest possible round-trip communication will require approximately 48 hours.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The country is Southeast Asia's fastest growing hub for new data centres -- warehouse-like buildings crammed with servers that can train and run AI tools such as chatbots and image generators.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Manufacturing output expanded at the fastest rate in six months, underpinned by solid increases in new work inflows, according to the survey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
But the tallest and the strongest and the scariest girl in all of the fifth grade was also the fastest, and easily caught up.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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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
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
He was a silent, brooding man, given to fasts and contemplation, going often, alone, into the caves of the mountains, in the section of Virginia where he lived.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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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
When the rats fasted or received insulin, the sensors tracked cytokine levels as they drifted down.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
He was joined by thousands who fasted with him and held demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
“No matter how much I prayed, no matter how much I fasted, she was not getting better.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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"We lived a quiet normal life, fasting for a few days then having a small meal," Shukrani said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
None of this means intermittent fasting is useless.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
There are many different approaches to intermittent fasting.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
After Wangchuk and others were moved to hospital, Neha continued fasting despite having lost 8kg.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“But, Esther, you have to stop all that fasting o,” Zemaye said.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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