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
This would lead to the creation of the Wacky Soap Box Racers, in which the makeshift cars would careen through painted facades of cartoon-ish animals cheering on the guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
I grip the dashiki for dear life as we careen toward the bright purple portal I saw from the windows in Tano’s vanity office.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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If traditional masculinity sometimes veers into the toxic, this version careens into the absurd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
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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Bass has never lost an election and won’t easily fold, even as her first term has careened from one crisis to another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
He whiffed and, as his belly careened iceward, made a desperate swat at the puck that lifted it over the glove of the Vegas goalie to give the Hurricanes a lead they’d never relinquish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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
Jefferies’ shares are still down around 20% over the past month, having begun their slide as First Brands careened toward bankruptcy amid a flurry of media revelations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
California and Washington careened into the last five hundred yards, storming down the corridor of open water between the spectators’ boats.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
"I fear we are careening toward a future with fewer and fewer journalists to do the expensive, difficult work of original reporting," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Despite the recent surge in interest, MLB is careening toward a labor meltdown that threatens to squander that goodwill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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
My hands are sweating, but this has the feeling of inevitability, as though this is what I was careening toward the whole time, my whole life.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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