fast
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Thybulle will be asked to knock down corner threes and fill the lane on the fast break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
It’s well established that the universe is expanding, but there’s serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it’s happening.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
He instead asked how fast his presidential limousine could travel.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
“In the first half of the year we had this fast and furious rise in both earnings and earnings expectations,” said Christian Mueller-Glissmann, head of asset allocation research at Goldman Sachs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I moved as fast as I could and I wish I could have moved faster.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
He noted that the average annual costs for basketball and soccer are growing faster than baseball’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“The Beast is going faster than it has ever gone before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to the heavily armored presidential limousine.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
If the labor market was hot, companies would be competing more for workers and wages would be rising faster.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
"And because we have the results of cognitive tests these volunteers took over time, we can see that the people with the highest ImP levels also experienced much faster cognitive decline," Rey says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 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
Red Bull's Isack Hadjar was third fastest but has a five-place grid penalty, which will promote runaway championship leader Kimi Antonelli to third place.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
That was the fastest rise in prices since September 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The annual rate hit 3.3 percent in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, the fastest pace since December 2023, according to preliminary data from the statistics agency Destatis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
If completed as scheduled, it will be the fastest trip to the International Space Station by a U.S. spacecraft in the station's history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Even at fifty years old, Peter was still an exceptional fencer, exhibiting the fastest hand work I had ever seen.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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
Alcodray says he fasts from 6:20 a.m. until around 8 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 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
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
Chavez and his cause earned international attention, especially after he fasted for 36 days in 1968, ending it by sharing bread with then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
She didn't drink alcohol or eat pork, and she always fasted during Ramadan.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
The research was led by kinesiology and nutrition professor Krista Varady, a longtime researcher in the field of intermittent fasting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
It is the fasting warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
In late 2022, Elon Musk posted that he lost 30 pounds by fasting and taking semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
“But, Esther, you have to stop all that fasting o,” Zemaye said.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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