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View definitions for high-speed

high-speed

adjective as in breakneck

adjective as in express

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Their slow pace is compensated by a high-speed weapon: a tongue that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in about one hundredth of a second.

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These included high-speed chariot races, armed gladiators who fought to the death, and the feeding of unlucky people to hungry lions.

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Alas, the book had been lost in a high-speed chase involving singing pirates and a howling parrot.

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But in recent weeks he has been talking more about how he can use his spaceships to deploy new versions of his solar-powered Starlink satellites equipped with high-speed lasers to build out in-space data centers.

Pitts lives on Avalon Boulevard, where he maintains a small garden to memorialize his son Omari Pitts, who was killed in a violent crash from a high-speed police chase in Fontana.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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