hastily
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Others took inventory of the hastily packed belongings in their trunks or snoozed as comfortably as they could in plastic chairs at the evacuation site.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
Police released further footage appearing to show crowds swarming a petrol station near the hospital and collecting items from the shelves before leaving hastily.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
In early April, several hastily created Polymarket accounts bet on a U.S.-Iran cease-fire hours before President Trump announced one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Trump said at a hastily arranged late-night news conference at the White House that he first thought the noise was a tray being dropped, before realizing it was gunfire.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
A Presidium member named Leonid Ilychev dashed out of the mansion with a stack of hastily typed pages.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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