headlong

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They amassed enough signatures late last year to qualify their proposal for this November’s ballot, launching New England’s most populous state headlong into the debate over whether policing rent helps tenants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

There was “a headlong stampede to protectionism and restriction in imports,” in the words of economic historian Charles Kindleberger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Saturday's Anfield horror show at the hands of Nottingham Forest was a headlong fall into the abyss.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

Ireland hosts one of the world's fast-growing clusters of data centres, but is running headlong into the difficult consequences.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

He says I’m like a baby who runs headlong into things, not knowing enough to be afraid.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon