breakneck

Example Sentences

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But the economic policies paved the way for breakneck growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Despite the widely publicized race for the exits among holders of so-called semiliquid funds, private credit is still expanding, albeit not at last year’s breakneck pace.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Detention centers are being built at breakneck speed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

And if they had, it was quickly overshadowed by something else in our breakneck news cycle, like FBI director Kash Patel chugging beer with the gold medal–winning men’s hockey team.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Oppenheimer’s arrival at Berkeley was rather less dramatic than his arrival a few months earlier at Caltech, which he had reached after a breakneck automobile drive through the desert punctuated by two serious crack-ups.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik