quickie

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Craig and Carter Blanchard collaborated on the screenplay adaptation, and the film relies on the kind of quickie reveals and twists that audiences would expect from this kind of thing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

And so in September, Marie went down to Tijuana to get a quickie divorce, which was very popular back then.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023

Mr. Corry followed with a quickie book of his own, “The Manchester Affair.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Then he went to Reno, Nevada, and got himself a quickie divorce.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride