sprint
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But Great Britain's new sprint sensation forewarned everyone exactly what was coming here.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Crowley and his backers had undertaken an intense late-July sprint to persuade Democrats to coalesce around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
When William Fleming, James’s brother, was voted his family’s representative for the 50 meter sprint, the pressure was palpable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
How does F1/the FIA decide where to have sprint races?
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The lamassus roared and abandoned their battles to sprint in to help their mistress, but it was too late.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Inside AI companies and larger tech companies working furiously on AI projects, however, such sprints can be extreme.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
This year's race begins in Monaco on 22 August and finishes in Granada on 13 September, with 21 stages across three weeks including time trials, sprints, rolling hills and high mountains.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The kid known for his electric speed ranks only ninth in total sprints on his own team and his average speed has been below his teammate Aymeric Laporte’s—even though Laporte is a central defender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s tempting to portray competition in the quantum space as a mad dash, akin to the high-stakes sprints to commercialize cloud compute and artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Within minutes of the official start time, we were running hall sprints, doing frog jumps and bear crawls until sweat was pouring from every inch of our bodies.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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A couple walking along the beach sprinted out of the way as the small plane dropped down, Griffin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Springboks had the luxury of bringing on Damian Willemse from the bench, but it was another replacement who pounced next as scrum-half Jantjies sprinted over in his first Test for three years.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In contrast, Spain have been the hardest-working of the final four as they've run, sprinted and pressed the opposition the most out of the semi-finalists.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
One asylum seeker sprinted into the courthouse, hours after her early morning hearing appointment in early June, her flip flops barely holding together as she frantically ran up and down the hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Before Dad could stop me, I sprinted into our greenhouse, took the eggs out of the carton, one by one, and slammed them into the dead plants.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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SOMERS, N.Y.—Robert Carleton was getting the mail one day in April when he saw a group of teenage boys sprinting away from nearby woods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Wales coughed up possession from the kick-off and when the ball went wide, Ravutaumada made amends by sprinting over to score to reduce the deficit to one point.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
No player in Serie A covered more distance at sprinting speed during his loan spell at Cagliari.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
On the first play, Williams caught a long touchdown pass, sprinting well past the defender who had no idea how fast he runs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Rishi could barely keep himself from sprinting through the crowd of Insomnia Con students to the hallway and the lecture hall.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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