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[hur-tl] / ˈhɜr tl /


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But back in Cortina, one man is still watching visitors hurtle down racecourses, ski jumps and bobsled tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

The accident, which saw the picture-postcard 19th-century Gloria tramway hurtle into a building after careering off the rails, shocked the Portuguese capital, laying bare fears over the safety of the popular yet ageing tourist attraction.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

During the chaotic period the Sun tries to reduce its complexity and violence spills out, as bits of the Sun hurtle toward the Earth.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

The court as a whole and the two concurrences hurtle pell-mell toward making it virtually impossible for plaintiffs like Mexico to successfully plead their claims.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

But these are the laws our planet obeys as we ourselves, glued by gravity to the surface of the Earth, hurtle through interplanetary space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

While Hurricane Polo hurtles around the Pacific, there isn't a trace of the usual cyclones off Mexico's opposite coast, near Solis's native Yucatan.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Hall could be heard exclaiming, as the unusual-looking raccoon hurtles across a pavement and up some nearby steps.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

For public companies, so-called “related-party transactions” are publicly disclosed in regulatory filings, but Altman’s personal investments remain opaque as OpenAI hurtles towards a public listing later this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

A few months and one tutorial from Anthropic’s Claude AI model later, Marks’ latest investment memo has the header “AI hurtles ahead.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

Hours later, he wakes to see the silhouette of an airplane blot stars as it hurtles east.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The plane then hurtled into a nearly minute-long nosedive, plummeting almost three miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sprinting robots hurtled themselves full-speed into a wall like Forrest Gump with a death wish.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Pilot Jakob Mandlbauer was stretchered off after the bob hurtled down the track for a good 30 seconds on its side.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

The pace has been breathless, leaving allies and opponents alike struggling to catch up as the US diplomatic bandwagon hurtled from issue to issue.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

Annabeth spun as a massive dark shape hurtled down at her—a snarling, monstrous blob with spindly barbed legs and glinting eyes.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Whilst firefighters shouted for everybody to run away, Berriff said he "stayed there, looking through the small viewfinder on my camera to see 250,000 tonnes of metal and girders hurtling towards me".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Surveillance footage from March 22 captured the moment the plane smashed into the rescue vehicle as it crossed its path, sending both hurtling down the runway.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

We’re both new fathers and hurtling toward middle age completely agog at how quickly the time gallops by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Is a life spent constantly looking backward instead of hurtling forward even worth grieving?

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

I was thrown out of the dream, sent hurtling back into the freezing hotel room.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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