hastily
Example Sentences
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And this latest fender bender might be the one that finally illuminates dashboard warning lights for those bosses who have always so hastily turned to Woods in the past.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
That is, an incorrect fact in hastily produced copy—intended, at the end of the day, to capture as many eyeballs as possible rather than to inform—can all too easily be repeated by an LLM.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Frightened and not knowing where to go, they hastily took cover under the steps of a villa whose owners had themselves left everything on the table and hurried off.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
They herded the hastily formed Volkssturm platoons into parks and gave hurried instructions in the use of the machine gun and Panzerfaust.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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