overhasty
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So maybe I’m being overhasty with this week’s Dinner in Minutes recipe, which prominently features asparagus, a favorite spring vegetable.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
At 53, Thompson might be considered too old to play the Danish prince, a 30-year-old student on leave from university after the suspicious death of his father and the overhasty marriage of his mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2017
Rio pointed out that the sackings did not prejudge the results of any investigation, but they jolted many employees, some of whom thought them overhasty.
From Economist ● Jan. 12, 2017
The lesson for the west is that economic torpor can be prolonged by overhasty policy tightening and by a failure to clean up the banking system.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2015
That miserable purblind Finck, unequal to his task;—that overhasty I, who drove him upon it!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
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