hasten
Example Sentences
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Yet prices remain on track for their largest yearly loss since the pandemic, due in part to major oil producers hastening their plans to boost production.
From MarketWatch
Local residents had complained that exploration work had contaminated the water supply, threatened tourism and risked hastening the melting of glaciers, Kyrgyz media reported earlier this year.
From Barron's
The protests, unprecedented in President Xi Jinping's decade in power, were suppressed by police within days but helped hasten the end of three years of restrictions, sources have previously told Reuters.
From Reuters
The rule hastened Mr. Boehner’s retirement and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, did away with the rule on her watch.
From Washington Times
A snapshot includes ending child poverty, attempting to make widespread public service a cornerstone of the state’s identity, hasten a switch to clean energy and revive a long-dead $2 billion rail project in Baltimore.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
