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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

Her sounds careen and resonate in avant-garde ways that feel primal, even tectonic.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2025

But it must be a trick of the light, because as I careen across the gravel, I see the tip of the Sandy June’s sign.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was a somber reminder of how far apart the two sides are as baseball careens toward a labor apocalypse that seems all but inevitable.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 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

Directed by Akiva Schaffer, “The Naked Gun” careens around, merrily smashing into things like a custom-engineered Liam Neeson vehicle.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2025

My insides go in one direction while my body careens forward, and I grasp the seat as we start to slow down.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

A 37-year-old Oxnard man was driving the vehicle at a high rate of speed when he turned to the right, ran off the roadway, slammed off a rock and careened down a cliff.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Since the wreckage of the 2007-09 recession, when the Dow careened below 6600, the American economy has zoomed past its rich counterparts to become far larger than that of the European Union.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 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

His thoughts had careened in several directions and he could not get control of them.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

About an inch long, they’re hard to miss — and are known for careening into unsuspecting bystanders.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

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

The sea service is too small at 291 ships in the battle force and has been careening from one shipbuilding failure to another.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 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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