careen
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While recording in a park one evening, Jack picks up the sound of a car tire exploding before he sees the vehicle careen off the road and into a creek.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Even the slightest misstep made me feel like I was about to careen out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
A daunting prospect after mechanical failure caused his Lotus car to careen into barriers at 160mph in Jerez in 1990.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
The tires of his car are splayed out and he appears to be about to careen off his corner pedestal straight into traffic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
But as I careen forward he steps up and catches my wrists, steadying me.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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As the tram careens past, a delivery man can been seen leaping to safety from his bicycle, while a passerby also races out of the way.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
And as a wild offseason coaching carousel careens towards its conclusion, Penn State is still desperately searching for a replacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
His experience, he said, has taught him how to mitigate the damage done when an opposing team member careens into you.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
While Cranston is not playing himself — although, he has on other occasions — he does strip himself of all vanity to portray Griffin Mill losing his ever-loving mind as he careens through the Venetian.
From Salon ● May 15, 2025
The bottle careens and thuds to the carpet, ink pours down over the skyscape, veiling Mrs. Smeath in Parker’s Washable Blue.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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As the floodwaters careened through the town, Rai ran into Prasad, shirtless and crying, and urged him to get to higher ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Police were on scene Monday afternoon in Granada Hills after a Tesla driver lost control and careened into the Ali Baba Persian Restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
This year, somehow, I careened straight from verdant, crisp summer food — cucumber salads, crisp chicken Caesar wraps, yogurt bowls, smoothies — into the warm-orange-and-brown spectrum of winter.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
The disrupted lanterns careened into an avalanche of chaos, until every lamp was swinging and colliding and clanging.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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But here’s what excites me most about the brave new world of mathematics the A.I. industry has us careening toward: We will have a much sharper sense of what the truly difficult problems are.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Yes: over here, skating around on the ice and careening into the boards!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
How much can one film really change a world that seems like it’s careening faster and faster toward annihilation?
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Weaving in and out of traffic and careening along footpaths, they're an increasingly familiar sight, infuriating many locals.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
A direct impact on one galaxy by another can send the constituent stars pouring and careening through intergalactic space, a galaxy wasted.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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