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He said soldiers "sped off" just before the settlers launched the assault.

She was waiting for her dinner to arrive—four pizzas, delivered not by Mookie, but by an anonymous helmeted driver on a scooter who had sped away before she stepped back inside.

Like the cartoon character, having headed off the edge of a cliff, global trade is defying gravity momentarily but the running has kept going, and even sped up.

The projects have been sped by a deregulation campaign that began in 2020 with an "omnibus law" that reformed dozens of regulations at once to boost investment and create jobs in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

Higher costs of living, competition, tariffs and an online ecosystem that has sped up trend cycles have weighed on beauty-industry heavyweights.