whizzing

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A bizarre pursuit unfolded along the residential streets of Oceanside this week as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff’s patrol cars chased a teen whizzing away from them on an electric dirt bike.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Cars were whizzing by, so I had to stop every few feet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

To chase them down, the Large Hadron Collider sends particles whizzing around an underground ring at phenomenal speeds until they smash into each other.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Does a new system of insurance solve the problems when drones and missiles are whizzing in the skies above the tankers, and occasionally targeting them?

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

Year by year and minute by minute, everybody and everything was whizzing rapidly upwards.

From "1984" by George Orwell