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headlong

[hed-lawng, -long] / ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ, -ˌlɒŋ /


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“It looks like they’re running headlong into a brick wall,” Valatsas said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

But the audaciousness is always in service of capturing the headlong rush of new love, the characters as giddy as the filmmaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Saturday's Anfield horror show at the hands of Nottingham Forest was a headlong fall into the abyss.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

Ireland hosts one of the world's fast-growing clusters of data centres, but is running headlong into the difficult consequences.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

She was headlong in love with her young physician and thus in love with all that he did.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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