hastily

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That is, an incorrect fact in hastily produced copy—intended, at the end of the day, to capture as many eyeballs as possible rather than to inform—can all too easily be repeated by an LLM.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

Rich Maw, an independent member of North Yorkshire Council and Scarborough Town Council, said he believed it had been "done too hastily", calling it "a sledgehammer to crack a nut".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

“The doctors hastily placed me on oxygen to jump-start my lungs. It worked,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

The shrews had all clambered hastily aboard the strange craft.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques