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careen

[kuh-reen] / kəˈrin /
VERB
tilt; move wildly down path
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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

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

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

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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