hasty
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He described the car and then boomed out his order over the airwaves, “Don’t be so hasty there. … Don’t crowd!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The share of "hasty readers", who rush through texts to give quick, incorrect answers, has almost doubled between 2018 and 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Such periods tend to bring collateral damage and hasty decisions driven by a desire to make the money while it’s hot, Glatzer said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The author’s authoritative tone is undermined by the odor of hasty research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Jakob, I see a recipe for hasty pudding.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Presently hastier footsteps—those of a running man—sounded nearer.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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
I did not see its face; in fact the glimpse was of the hastiest.
From Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Mrs. Molesworth
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
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