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hasten

[hey-suhn] / ˈheɪ sən /


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A team of strategists at Deutsche Bank outlined 10 factors that, according to them, helped hasten the U.S.’s rise to a preeminent global power from a small country at the time of its founding.

From MarketWatch Jun. 28, 2026

To hasten production, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the agency was exploring innovations to improve sterile fly production efficiency, including offering $100 million in grants to private-sector partners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Companies like GenScriptBiotech are using AI to hasten research and development and cut project timelines.

From Barron's Apr. 25, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

Now and again a horseman would ride up, and leap from the saddle and hasten into the City.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Her confidante immediately hastens off to write “The Tears of the Comet,” an allegorical tale that decorously recasts certain incidents from his stay.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Many, even most divorced men are not like this, he hastens to add.

From Salon Jul. 16, 2024

Though the initial responses in preclinical tumor models to the inhibitor were impressive, Olive hastens to point out that the tumors were not eliminated.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

Professor Francl hastens to say she doesn’t dump a shakerful in every cup.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2024

After the service, I put myself in the path of Father Alphonse as he hastens from the chapel.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

A full-size replica of a Spanish galleon stares out into Manila Bay, the centrepiece of a museum that will transport visitors back to the 17th century, when conscripted Philippine mariners hastened the era of globalisation.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

That sparked a national outcry and hastened the end of the lockout.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

Although the 73-year-old was terminally ill, her family believe it hastened her decline.

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

Natural gas from shale hastened the demise of coal, and China’s solar manufacturing build-out slashed the cost of panels.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 13, 2025

“We have to prepare some meat and fish,” she would order the four cooks, who hastened to have everything ready under the imperturbable direction of Santa Sofía de la Piedad.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

In the letter, Carr also warned that the FCC would be monitoring Disney’s affiliate-station negotiations and agreements; with this week’s early request, he appears to be hastening that scrutinizing process.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

Officials have indicated it would take some time before the economic impact of the war can be judged, and that hastening to make a call would be a mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

As developments in the Middle East remained in focus over the weekend, President Donald Trump quietly signed a directive hastening the review of certain psychedelic drugs.

From Barron's Apr. 20, 2026

Others hastening back had reported that the road was held in force against them.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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