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
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
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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
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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
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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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