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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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Residents of a senior living center were hastily evacuated, some pushed down streets in wheelchairs and hospital beds.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The next day, a midlevel appeals court hastily held oral arguments and rejected Trump’s delay request.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
This discovery, however, doesn't mean astronomers will hastily draw conclusions or that the search for life on exoplanets will be derailed by false positive biosignatures.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
First recordings of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Gershwin revolutionized American music and ushered in the Jazz Age, but the 25-year-old composer wrote his groundbreaking rhapsody rather hastily.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The next day, a midlevel appeals court hastily held oral arguments and rejected Trump’s delay request.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
This discovery, however, doesn't mean astronomers will hastily draw conclusions or that the search for life on exoplanets will be derailed by false positive biosignatures.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 2 Jan. 2025
First recordings of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Gershwin revolutionized American music and ushered in the Jazz Age, but the 25-year-old composer wrote his groundbreaking rhapsody rather hastily.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Hastily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hastily. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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