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the hastily put together report contained a lot of errors
the congresswoman hastily made her way towards the waiting elevator
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The soldier went hastily to Chépart, but the commandant was recovering from a night of drunken debauchery and dismissed the warnings.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
Iman, meanwhile, is tormented in his new job, which requires him to hastily process countless new arrest cases by the day.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Some have cigarettes tucked behind their ears, while others scratch at wonky tattoos hastily drawn on with Sharpie.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Four of those had been entered into the federal CODIS DNA database and had to be hastily removed.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
Iman, meanwhile, is tormented in his new job, which requires him to hastily process countless new arrest cases by the day.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Some have cigarettes tucked behind their ears, while others scratch at wonky tattoos hastily drawn on with Sharpie.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Four of those had been entered into the federal CODIS DNA database and had to be hastily removed.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Hastily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hastily. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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