hasty
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Several government officials were called to testify about the hasty removal on the Washington site where the president dreams of building a championship-level course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
He described the car and then boomed out his order over the airwaves, “Don’t be so hasty there. … Don’t crowd!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The share of "hasty readers", who rush through texts to give quick, incorrect answers, has almost doubled between 2018 and 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He said there was a "difference between being swift and being hasty" as he defended being unable to yet announce Nesbitt's successor following his resignation.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He had been too hasty in his preparations, and he had underestimated the force of the rapids.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
The FDA reached its decision in 97 days, about 40 percent of the usual timeline for such a review, but wisely refused to be browbeat into a hastier conclusion.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
Other nations, reckoning with their own wrongdoings, have been far hastier to arrive at this point.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2017
"The Delhi government is already working toward tackling this situation and now that we've picked up this report, the government will take hastier steps to tackle the situation," A.K.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2012
Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ones of hastier temper suggested a revolt and a seizure of the island; but this was so insane an idea that it was put away at once.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by W. C. Morrow
When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2020
It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the hastiest survey of that long and interesting period enables the student to notice a marked development in the theory and practice of excommunication.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
The hastiest comparison of their poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an exotic beauty.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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