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speeding

[spee-ding] / ˈspi dɪŋ /




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His mother, he said, saw a grey Renault Clio car speeding by and heard "loud bangs".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

At the time, he was ordered to pay just under £4,000 in fines for the spate of offences, including two speeding tickets acquired on the same day.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the nearer term, he cautioned, even a small amount of S&P 500 underperformance could trigger that momentum crowd to flee, speeding up a selloff.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The new menu items also anchor a turnaround effort that includes improving food quality and speeding up service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Police can tell how fast a car is going by testing how light—in the form of radio waves—reflected off the speeding vehicle gets shifted.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

And as I went downward through the miles, lo! all the aether of the world seemed to be surged with the silent prayers and speedings of those quiet multitudes.

From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson


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