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careen

verb as in tilt; move wildly down path

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The Continent today is careening into a second wrenching fiscal crisis, after the 2010 disaster.

The car came careening down Sepulveda Boulevard, collided into Braun Levi and sent the Loyola High School tennis star flying through the air before he slammed into the asphalt.

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After the opening bell rang in New York Friday, shares in Nvidia, Oracle and other companies at the heart of the artificial-intelligence boom careened low enough to flash a green light for dip-buyers.

Earlier in 2022, 16 people, including a child, were killed and more than a dozen others were injured when a truck descending a remote mountain in West Papua careened into a cliff and crashed.

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But inside the car, I steadily fed it power as I careened into the seemingly endless Turn 3, and felt it practically eat up asphalt through a slightly winding Turn 9.

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

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