speed
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Pull over to use the bathroom, switch between speed limits, and wait for an inevitable bout of traffic to slow the car’s pace to a crawl for who knows how long.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
If you do pay extra to speed up your loan payoff, instruct your lender to apply all extra funds directly to your principal balance immediately and to keep your next payment due date unchanged.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Project Brakestop is also being done at break-neck speed.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
But the growing capabilities of AI agents—and the speed at which the models powering them are evolving—give new meaning to working yourself to the bone, The Wall Street Journal reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
We both scream and speed up even faster and finally, finally we make it to his grandma’s front yard.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
The BBC's Helena Humphrey took a test drive ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, where IndyCar race cars will push speeds of 180mph in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The safety project on Forest Lawn Drive is part of a citywide mobility plan intended to revamp roads, update bike lanes to include protective barriers and reduce speeds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
In a market where computing power is in short supply, Cerebras’s latest artificial-intelligence hardware promises ultrafast inference speeds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
As a result, their strides were shorter, and their walking speeds were slower.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
My heart speeds up even though we’re jogging pretty slowly.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Military trucks sped across winding roads through farmland and quiet villages to one of Europe's most strategic borders, separating Poland and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Last January, it sped across the £35m barrier and now it's knocking on the door of £50-£60m on new players.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The quarterback has worked diligently to change his shotgun stance, now putting his left foot in front of his right, and has sped up his decision making to get the ball to playmakers in space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
This week’s second-quarter auto-loan data is also a reminder of how far drivers have sped past the days when five-year car loans were typical and cheap new cars were easy to find.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Two Secret Service agents shoved Reagan into the presidential limousine, which sped to a nearby emergency room where the president received immediate life-saving treatment.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
The deputy council leader also welcomed the overhaul plans from the UK government, saying the process has "always needed to be speeded up".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
It wasn’t long before USC finally speeded away from Iowa, with Desmond Claude and Saint Thomas taking control to close out the Hawkeyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
But the biggest thing Ghai and his family are doing does not directly involve workers at all: They’ve speeded up and expanded their use of technology, especially AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
The 1950s also mark the onset of the "Great Acceleration", when the human population and its consumption patterns suddenly speeded up.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
Oksi chased right, then left, right, left, and speeded up to strike.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Citi noted an “accelerating AI race” in China, as AI model developers are speeding up the release of ever more powerful models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Their frustration isn’t just rooted in annoyance at having surprise speeding tickets show up in the mail.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The 48-year-old president drew criticism after Paris Match magazine splashed a photo of Macron speeding across the Riviera on a jet ski across its cover.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Domestic workers, labourers and other pedestrians routinely dodge speeding traffic, and many are killed trying to cross.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Had I lived a different life, getting thrown out of a speeding minibus might have fazed me.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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