hasten

Example Sentences

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“The ants were adding nutrients to the mud and hastening the reestablishment of less ad hoc food chains,” he wrote.

From Literature

She had also had a cryptococcus infection - which is often linked to pigeon droppings - which her family believe hastened her decline and may have limited her treatment options.

From BBC

These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.

From The Wall Street Journal

It will only hasten the very decline the movement fears.

From Salon

Fusion engineers will use this “digital twin” to run simulations, ultimately to hasten the goal of producing fusion energy at a commercial scale.

From The Wall Street Journal