as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
an overhasty reading of the recipe resulted in the omission of a critical ingredient
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Overhead, a pair of firefighting helicopters circled in constant, hurried laps between the lake and the burning hillsides.—
Wally Skalij,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025 -
He’s got quick crossover acceleration with a hurried stride that cranks its way up ice to give him good speed.—
Scott Wheeler,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Jacqueline Saffo, 71, lived in a unit there with her husband, Cory, until a fire last year forced them to make a hasty exit.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
23 Jan. 2025
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Mod, hasty and handsome, the KLR 650 works for riders who want to explore all terrains.—
Josh Max,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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New York Jets League perception: This is seen as the toughest job because of an impulsive owner (Woody Johnson) and an unforgiving, relentless media market.—
Mike Sando,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Like humans, dogs who have been neglected or who have had some other major disruptive change to their environment can show impulsive aggression.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
15 Jan. 2025
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The main symptom is a skin rash, which may be dry, itchy, irritated, and swollen.2 Most commonly, eczema rashes appear on the face, head, elbows, and/or knees.—
Laura Dorwart,
Verywell Health,
7 Jan. 2025
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The three stages are flu-like illness, mouth sores, and skin rash.—
Sarah Bradley,
Health,
15 Dec. 2024
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Frank Santoro with the L.A. County district attorney’s office argued the probation department was making the necessary improvements and releasing youth inside would be reckless.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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He’s become poised to the point of being unrecognizable from his Young Josh days as a gunslinging, sometimes reckless quarterback who sometimes took himself, his teammates and Bills fans on Sunday roller-coaster rides.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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But that engagement drop was more tempered compared to 2021's precipitous year-over-year decline.—
Neal Rothschild,
Axios,
14 Jan. 2025
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The streets here are steep, as in San Francisco-steep—so precipitous that brave locals (or crazy, some might say) hurtle down them in homemade bobsleds every January.—
Cassidy Randall,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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But, an approach solely focused on sudden movements could lead to so many false triggers, users would likely find the option more annoying than beneficial—and that’s where machine learning, a segment of AI focused on pattern recognition, comes into play.—
Reece Rogers,
WIRED,
25 Jan. 2025
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The coastal city of Rancho Palos Verdes suffered sudden movement from a decades-old complex of slow-moving landslides last fall, twisting roads and putting multimillion-dollar homes on the brink of destruction.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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The issue is whether the briskly growing services sector and headlong AI-investment buildout can bolster aggregate growth rates in a way that doesn’t bring additional stress on the housing and goods-producing sectors.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
11 Jan. 2025
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Venu responded to the challenges of launching a new sports streamer with headlong momentum, landing former Apple exec Pete Distad to serve as CEO last March before setting a launch target and an opening subscription rate of $42.99 per month.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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