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galloping

[gal-uh-ping] / ˈgæl ə pɪŋ /




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Hundreds of Venezuelan workers and pensioners marched Monday for an increase in "hunger" wages as well as pensions frozen for four years and eroded by galloping inflation.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Politics and security weren’t Venezuelans’ top concerns, but rather the weak economy, poor salaries and galloping inflation, the poll showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

But his athletic, endurance game came good, with a galloping break near the end earning the territory from which Slade went over.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

The exhilarating 15-minute one that opened Mr. Lloyd’s “Lift Every Voice,” from 2002, embroidered with John Abercrombie’s inventive electric-guitar lines, found Mr. Lloyd floating his melody atop a lightly galloping beat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

They used every ounce of leg strength to put some distance between them and the galloping beast.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles