- present participle of speed.
speeding
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This self-improvement is speeding up research and development—and freaking everyone out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Despite knowing he was being tailed by a trained pursuit driver, Richardson tried to flee, first speeding through narrow residential streets and then making a final futile attempt to escape on foot.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The cosmological constant returned to prominence in the 1990s, when astronomers discovered that cosmic expansion was speeding up.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
In response to complaints of speeding, he said, Raman’s office helped get four speed tables — a flatter, wider version of speed bumps — installed in the intersection near his business last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
A thirteen-year-old Eastern Shore boy, alone in his 14-foot skiff plucked a three-year-old from the frigid waters of the Corsica River yesterday afternoon and resuscitated the child while speeding through pelting rain to waiting rescuers.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
And as I went downward through the miles, lo! all the aether of the world seemed to be surged with the silent prayers and speedings of those quiet multitudes.
From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
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