sprint
Example Sentences
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“This is not good news for the final sprint in this year’s Christmas business,” Buerkl added.
She was the first woman to win the sprint and pursuit events at the same Games and won a further 15 medals, including seven gold, across five World Championships.
From BBC
Having a stash of snacks on-hand, for both hosting and lollygagging on the couch, will make the holiday sprint so much more enjoyable.
“Job growth is holding on, but cracks are forming. Consumers are still standing, but not sprinting,” she added.
From Barron's
“It’s a marathon sprint,” Andrew Rumbach, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Urban Institute, where he studies disaster response, told The Times in September.
From Los Angeles Times
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