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hasty

[hey-stee] / ˈheɪ sti /


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The author’s authoritative tone is undermined by the odor of hasty research.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

The Hearts players and staff made a hasty exit from the ground, with some players still in their match kit on the team bus as they headed back to Edinburgh.

From BBC May 17, 2026

What follows is a story told in hasty paragraphs, pithy fragments and cynical dispatches from a conspiracy theory-infested America.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

The horrific allegations against both Gonzales and Swalwell comfortably met the bar for hasty resolution.

From Slate Apr. 16, 2026

She told Kendra and Seth that if things went wrong, they should make a hasty retreat with Hugo.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The FDA reached its decision in 97 days, about 40 percent of the usual timeline for such a review, but wisely refused to be browbeat into a hastier conclusion.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2021

Other nations, reckoning with their own wrongdoings, have been far hastier to arrive at this point.

From The Guardian Aug. 31, 2017

"The Delhi government is already working toward tackling this situation and now that we've picked up this report, the government will take hastier steps to tackle the situation," A.K.

From Reuters Feb. 13, 2012

Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley.

From Time Magazine Archive

With him it was to be Socialism by contagion, with many of his still hastier contemporaries it was to be Socialism by proclamation.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2020

Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is something piquant in learning that the city is the hastiest construction on the continent.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

He always was quick on the trigger, but I'll be darned if that wasn't about the hastiest move I ever saw him make.

From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)




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