headlong
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That has left the stock market searching for direction after a torrid multiyear rally driven by artificial-intelligence mania has run headlong into the largest oil-supply disruption in history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
They amassed enough signatures late last year to qualify their proposal for this November’s ballot, launching New England’s most populous state headlong into the debate over whether policing rent helps tenants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 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
But before I went headlong into the dirt, Daddy caught me by the back of my shirt, pulled me right up, and set me on my feet.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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