fast
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“There are some parallels here that I think we need to think about because you always want the caboose going fast, slower than the front of the engine, and that’s not what’s happening,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
But fast movers can still take advantage of the moves he drives in individual stocks and the overall market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
While Wangchuk is not at the protest site any longer, many of the placards and posters have slogans about his fast and drawings of him.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
"We should be spending on capex as fast as we can spend... without it being too wasteful," Musk said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The engine gave out a sudden gunned roar as he rolled the fat car up really fast, then braked sharply, three or four feet away from me.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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Earlier this week, Lockheed said it would field a cheaper model of Patriot missile that could hit the battlefield faster, as global stockpiles of high-end interceptors dwindle, The Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The schedule is faster than it appeared just days ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The commercial market has grown faster than the clinical evidence base," the paper read, and "the absence of adequate clinical evidence for use in humans is an alarming safety concern."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Much of this will stem from technological improvements and innovation, the implementation of blockchain for faster settlement and the adoption of AI for efficiency and productivity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The smell excited the dogs and they began to run faster, although continuing down the trail; I turned to look back from the sled and saw why the doe was frightened.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Tesla is embarking on a massive construction spree that Musk characterized on a conference call as probably the United States' "fastest industrial scale up since World War Two."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
When the fastest man on the planet won Commonwealth relay gold for Jamaica in 2014, more than 50,000 fans cheered him home at Hampden.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But every so often — usually when the ground is shifting fastest — those invisible choices decide your returns.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Speaking of respect: The hill climb festivities are, in fact, a competition, featuring the world’s fastest cars being driven by a host of famous drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The psychoanalyst was then one of the fastest players in the country, perhaps even stronger than Bobby had anticipated.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Other recent studies on prolonged fasting have also found that the body enters a deep ketogenic state during multi day fasts, dramatically changing how cells use fuel.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Six Flags Qiddiya City recently hosted iftar celebrations that marked the end of the daily Ramadan fasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Nat fasts for 20 hours a day, to improve his mental clarity, he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Bonta, who intermittently fasts and tries not to eat before noon, was sticking to black coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
As she carved, she thought about her mother’s crazy diets: Juice fasts.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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He said that he did go to the mosque every Friday, and that he prayed and fasted and raised his children to be good Muslims.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
Chavez and his cause earned international attention, especially after he fasted for 36 days in 1968, ending it by sharing bread with then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
In came the resistance bands, dead lifts, dumbbells and agility drills, plus a private chef who got a sweet break from 8 p.m. until noon the next day, as Doncic intermittently fasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
He was joined by thousands who fasted with him and held demonstrations.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
She even slept and fasted in the woods for a name, but the spirits were stubborn.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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According to the research team, even a 12 week period of intermittent fasting could provide an effective medium term option for weight management among adults who are overweight or obese.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The late fasting group used an eight hour window beginning after 1:00 p.m.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
In a landmark speech in 1949, he argued that once constitutional avenues existed, methods such as fasting and civil disobedience should give way to democratic processes, warning that otherwise they became the "grammar of anarchy".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
"Hunger strikes are a global form of protest, not uniquely Indian," says Sayantan Saha Roy, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut whose recent research explores the politics of fasting.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Ocean thought Navid was hilarious, and I tried to explain that he wasn’t doing a bit, that Navid was really just, like, super annoying when he was fasting, and Ocean shrugged.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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