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overhasty

adjective as in premature

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So maybe I’m being overhasty with this week’s Dinner in Minutes recipe, which prominently features asparagus, a favorite spring vegetable.

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He said that “overhasty actions and Germany going it alone” would be viewed with suspicion.

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At 53, Thompson might be considered too old to play the Danish prince, a 30-year-old student on leave from university after the suspicious death of his father and the overhasty marriage of his mother.

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Rio pointed out that the sackings did not prejudge the results of any investigation, but they jolted many employees, some of whom thought them overhasty.

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As their price for supporting German unification, France and Italy pinned Germany down to a timetable for an overhasty, ill-designed and overextended European monetary union.

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