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After months of holding firm, even as Treasury yields steadily climbed, mortgage rates have finally relented in the past couple weeks, keeping pace with yields that have turned their steady jog upward into an all-out sprint.
MORTGAGE RATES SURGE HIGHER FOR SECOND WEEK IN A ROWKATHY ORTONFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Because you get to the office early, sprint all day, say “yes” to everything lobbed at you, leave work by the moon, stagger home, and fall into bed the second you get there.
NEW BOOK EXTOLS VIRTUES OF NAPS, TV, AND WEEKENDSTERRI SCHLICHENMEYERFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON BLADE
With about 150 yards to go, the squad members broke into a dead sprint.
“I DON’T TRUST THE PEOPLE ABOVE ME”: RIOT SQUAD COPS OPEN UP ABOUT DISASTROUS RESPONSE TO CAPITOL INSURRECTIONBY JOAQUIN SAPIEN AND JOSHUA KAPLANFEBRUARY 12, 2021PROPUBLICA
Then, they’d add more time on the clock, and Embiid would run full-court sprints between shots.
JOEL EMBIID CHANGED HIS OFFSEASON CONDITIONING. NOW HE’S PLAYING LIKE AN MVP.YARON WEITZMANFEBRUARY 9, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The trials lasted a little over six minutes on average, and as expected they followed a U-shaped pacing profile with a fast start, even-paced middle, and finishing sprint.
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FINISHING KICKALEX HUTCHINSONJANUARY 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
There never was a woman crossing the street on a muddy day that you didn't sprint to get a look at her ankles.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
He broke into a sprint, trying to stay away from the fatal touch.
THE STATUS CIVILIZATIONROBERT SHECKLEY
If the stop-watch could have been held on me, I am sure I should have established a record for a short-distance sprint.
MY LIFE IN MANY STATES AND IN FOREIGN LANDSGEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
Stallings leaped from the animal's head and the cowpunchers made a quick sprint to remove themselves from the danger zone.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHIN
A wild yell from the bushes bordering the trail they were following nearly sent the guide off on another sprint.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS ON THE BLUE RIDGEFRANK GEE PATCHIN
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO SPRINT

  • ambled
  • cantered
  • dashed
  • dogtroted
  • loped
  • paced
  • sprinted
  • trotted
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