headlong
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But the audaciousness is always in service of capturing the headlong rush of new love, the characters as giddy as the filmmaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
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
His voice was hoarse; his look that of a man who is just about to burst an insufferable bond and plunge headlong into wild license.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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