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scurry

verb as in move along swiftly

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It has also caused a panicked scurry for antiviral drug remdesivir, which became a popular therapy option as India’s case count kept surging past all previous records.

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Scurry suffered a career-ending concussion in an April 2010 hit playing for the Washington Freedom.

Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.

There is a constant flow of ambulances bringing in wounded while doctors scurry to save them.

He gazed down at the local track bed and saw something sleek and fat scurry under a rail.

I feel like I am in a John Le Carré novel and scurry into the tavern in hopes of avoiding an “international incident.”

People scurry past me while eating freshly roasted corn on the cob.

She bent above the page, and in the fever of her interest seemed to pounce on it and scurry over it.

The squad took advantage of the confusion to drop their burden and scurry out of sight in the throng.

A sleepy beetle dropped on its back; he turned it over and watched it scurry across the grass.

We had to scurry out in a hurry to avoid being penned there.

In the hurry and scurry that ensued, Sandy escaped sadly to the square.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scurry, such as: bustle, dart, dash, hurry, rip, and scamper.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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