fast
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“There are some parallels here that I think we need to think about because you always want the caboose going fast, slower than the front of the engine, and that’s not what’s happening,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Some traders said the fast Truth Social feed will likely become a must-have technology in the industry and many firms will sign up to keep pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He was forcibly removed from the CJP's protest venue at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Saturday and taken to hospital from where he continues his fast.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The fire erupted Tuesday in the Var region and spread at an unexpectedly fast pace, forcing some 400 people to evacuate and devouring 2,550 hectares.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
I didn’t respond fast enough, his face had shuttered, and the moment was gone.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“The BOJ is reportedly open to faster rate hikes amid growing concern over upside inflation risks,” Nomura’s FX Research analysts say in commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The schedule is faster than it appeared just days ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The commercial market has grown faster than the clinical evidence base," the paper read, and "the absence of adequate clinical evidence for use in humans is an alarming safety concern."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Under normal conditions, volatility is often viewed as a fear gauge, as it tends to rise as prices fall, because stocks tend to fall faster than they rally.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Mama tore up the trail faster than I had ever seen her run.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Dina Asher-Smith, the fastest British woman in history, and Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia have also pulled out.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Australian track sensation Cameron Myers - who ran the fastest 1500m by an under-21, external in July - will also compete in the event.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Tesla is embarking on a massive construction spree that Musk characterized on a conference call as probably the United States' "fastest industrial scale up since World War Two."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Those categories where the price rises are fastest are in video/ audio, financial services, medical services and airfares/ transportation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Within a year, Dad designed a scaffold that made him the fastest bricklayer on the job.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Some fasts last only hours; others are carefully staged media spectacles with banners, platforms and live television coverage.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The streets were busy with shoppers who had broken their fasts ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Still, scientists have had only a limited understanding of exactly how the body responds during longer fasts.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Bonta, who intermittently fasts and tries not to eat before noon, was sticking to black coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
The morning air was hazy with the smoke of cookfires, as three thousand men sat down to break their fasts beneath the banners of their lords.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He said that he did go to the mosque every Friday, and that he prayed and fasted and raised his children to be good Muslims.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
These individuals typically ate their first meal after 14:00 and fasted for about 17 hours.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2026
Chavez and his cause earned international attention, especially after he fasted for 36 days in 1968, ending it by sharing bread with then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
In came the resistance bands, dead lifts, dumbbells and agility drills, plus a private chef who got a sweet break from 8 p.m. until noon the next day, as Doncic intermittently fasted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
“I don’t give them all the details, but, yeah, they know. David comes over for dinner. He sometimes comes to the mosque with us. Last Ramadan, he even fasted a few days.”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
At the protest site in the capital Delhi, he began fasting on 28 June and has consumed nothing but salt and water since then, losing more than 9kg.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The researchers examined the popular 16:8 approach to intermittent fasting.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
In recent years, critics have continued to question whether fasting unto death belongs in a constitutional democracy.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
"But in India, where governments can become deeply unresponsive, protesters often see fasting as the only way to force those in power to act," says Saha Roy.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The next morning we woke early and set out for the chapel, telling our hosts that we were fasting so as not to give them any further bother.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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