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
“We need the ballroom,” he told reporters at a hastily organized press conference following the canceled dinner.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 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
The envelope was thick, the paper eerily familiar as I took in Elliot’s name hastily written across the front in his own handwriting.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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