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hastening

adjective as in hurrying

adjective as in racing

adjective as in rushing

noun as in acceleration

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If the EUA is granted, the vaccine will be the third authorized for use in the US against the pandemic coronavirus, likely boosting the vaccine supply in the coming months and helping to hasten immunization country-wide.

Hastening her decline has been a downturn in Brazil's economic fortunes.

I was hastening to the British national archives to immerse myself in old documents.

Israel in PerilDavid Shulman, The New York Review of Books How the Jewish state is hastening its own demise.

Literally every day seems to bring another announcement about studios hastening the release of major films, on DVD and on-demand.

And what would Brooks have Obama do if the road to “hastening” were paved with weeks of bloodshed?

Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

One evening, rather more than a week after the marriage, Hedges had been on an errand to Calne, and was hastening home.

He disappeared and she turned away with a sigh, to meet her uncle hastening towards her.

Meanwhile young Englishmen of quality and fortune were hastening in crowds to Paris.

I stood looking on, determined to let him have his course; he was only hastening his own fate, and why should I prevent it?

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hastening, such as: darting, dashing, expediting, flying, propelling, and racing.

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

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