headlong

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That has left the stock market searching for direction after a torrid multiyear rally driven by artificial-intelligence mania has run headlong into the largest oil-supply disruption in history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

A selloff that thrashed U.S. stocks and extended into international markets ran headlong Friday into one of the most powerful forces in America’s multiyear rally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Matthias kicked the sheets from him as he leaped up and dashed headlong from the bedroom, along the dormitory corridor and helter skelter down the spiral staircase.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques