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fast

adverb as in fixedly

noun as in abstention from eating

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verb as in go without food

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“It’s a big goal, but I think we could do $75-100 million in sales next year with Fabletics Men, which is our first full year with this line, which would be very, very fast growth,” Goldenberg says.

The upshot is a technology that provides a fast and low cost way to reduce emissions, Johnson told TechCrunch.

Huoseh would challenge his players to record the fastest times possible in their runs before ending the session with a scrimmage and a visit to a nearby Subway for lunch.

Together with astrophysicists Ke Fang of Stanford University and Ben Margalit of the University of California, Berkeley, Metzger calculated the energies of any neutrinos that would have been produced by the fast radio burst seen in April.

The tablet comes with a so-called A12 Bionic chip, designed by Apple, that gives it a 40% CPU speed boost and graphics that are twice as fast as last year’s model.

From Fortune

The new Apple Watch Series 6 has a new, faster processor designed by Apple called the S6, and a new altimeter sensor to measure altitude.

From Fortune

That decision left companies on the hook for labor law violations against workers not directly employed by them, like temp staff and employees of fast-food franchisees.

If you have employees, you need to know where they are really fast.

From Fortune

For decades computer scientists had been trying to develop a fast algorithm for determining when it’s possible to add edges to a graph so that it remains “planar,” meaning none of its edges cross each other.

It was also the fastest growing business application of 2019 by usage, according to research firm Okta.

From Fortune

The change may not go as far as some would like, or as fast.

From Fortune

It’s basically a hiker with a mesh upper that drains well and dries fast.

When these projects occur, you need fast access to the audience, and a production team that works like a well-oiled machine to make it work.

From Digiday

Instead, 5% of people had, in that two-day period, found a faster route, saving themselves on average six minutes a day.

From Fortune

So this is a pretty fast way to boost your channel views by ranking your videos in Google’s video carousel.

If we consider this business need for fast implementation and high customization, one particular trend stands out.

Three months earlier, after she missed a few of her $130 bimonthly payments, she said she called Oportun to tell the company she had lost her jobs as a hotel housekeeper and fast food worker because of the coronavirus pandemic and needed some relief.

They’re not ideal for carrying huge, bulky items or for long, fast commutes.

Verizon uses a much higher frequency, 28GHz, which provides extremely fast speeds but minimal coverage.

From Fortune

The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.

Both high fashion and the fast, commercial fashion of Target are supposed to be about aspiration.

And if people find themselves dissatisfied with how often they turn to fast food, Bacon says to try things like batch cooking.

While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’

Incidentally, Rousteing has no qualms with fast-fashion brands appropriating his designs either.

Or fast-fashion chains like Zara and H&M churning out runway imitations.

I think it all happened so fast for Sony that they were trying to regroup.

The former Czech leader, once a global darling of libertarians, is losing friends fast.

That indicated a relatively rapid increase in methane, followed by an equally fast decrease.

With the harsh Middle Eastern winter approaching fast, what people in Syria and Iraq need most, in fact, is humanitarian support.

It is a joy to watch Shafer seamlessly work incisive commentary on contemporary life into a fast-paced spine-chiller.

High flying and fast, the F-22 Raptor stealth jet is by far the most lethal fighter America has ever built.

I also believe the administration is hiding something about Benghazi and Fast and Furious, but the key word is “believe.”

“The good news is everything is really fast paced on the Internet,” she said.

The doctors and nurses in the emergency room were fast, caring, and highly professional.

Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.

In fact, Fast Company predicts that edible insects are already a $20 million industry in the U.S.

They could always call off the fast if the woman changed her mind.

I worked at this little strip club and it was a low point, but I wanted some fast money.

We raced so fast that our rifles dropped out of our shoulders and lazily down to our sides.

The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier's eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them.

There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.

You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.

You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.

And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.

We make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.

Primo de Rivera, who believed the rebellion to be fast on the wane, shipped back to Spain 7,000 troops.

That was because he was hungry, you see, but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were continually in a hurry.

Here Badorful rolled over upon his side, and was instantly fast asleep.

Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.

Major Abbott and his brother officers, trying to keep their men loyal, stood fast and listened to the distant turmoil in the city.

We came down the rest of the mountain more carefully, though still a great deal too fast.

In this traffic he made money so fast that he opened an office, and subsequently a store of his own, in the Escolta.

Altogether, it seems that not more than one-third of our fast diminishing total are available for actual fighting purposes.

To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.

Below the round thing hung a square basket, with many ropes, and other things, fast to it.

It sent gold to Paris as fast as it could be shipped and insured, and so seems to have liquidated its debt.

His companions followed his example, and in spite of rain and mosquitoes were soon fast asleep.

He had ridden fast; she had heard the quick strokes of the horse's hoofs on the ground before she saw him.

If he hadn't been so—so—I'm sure he'd get out of the Mounted Police fast enough if he didn't like it.

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

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