hastily
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At a hastily emptied compound 60 miles southwest of Chrey Thom, abandoned suitcases and clothes littered the corridors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Some of those attending the much talked about festival, which takes place over two weekends each year in Palm Springs, California, are ditching hastily assembled pop-up tents and crumpled gazebos.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
But this theory is entirely false, based on hastily assembled “academic” work that’s riddled with errors and lies.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Camp that night was two tents thrown up hastily in the middle of dense bush with the spring bugs newly awake buzzing at the tears we hadn’t had time to repair.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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