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as in hurriedly
with excessive or careless speed
the hastily put together report contained a lot of errors
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as in quickly
with great speed
the congresswoman hastily made her way towards the waiting elevator
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Recent Examples of hastily
Five minutes before the show was to start, nine rows of bleachers in a temporary grandstand, hastily assembled, quivered and crashed, swallowing about 600 men, women and children.
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
The days of hastily assembling a Big Three in one offseason—like the Boston Celtics did in 2007 and the Miami Heat did in 2010—legitimately might be endangered.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
There is room for about only 800 seats inside the Capitol Rotunda, so when Donald J. Trump’s inauguration was hastily moved indoors, that meant whoever made it inside was going to have to sit cheek-to-jowl.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
The assassination of President William McKinley led to an inauguration ceremony hastily arranged at a home in Buffalo, New York, according to the National Park Service.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 19 Jan. 2025
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
The days of hastily assembling a Big Three in one offseason—like the Boston Celtics did in 2007 and the Miami Heat did in 2010—legitimately might be endangered.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
There is room for about only 800 seats inside the Capitol Rotunda, so when Donald J. Trump’s inauguration was hastily moved indoors, that meant whoever made it inside was going to have to sit cheek-to-jowl.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
The assassination of President William McKinley led to an inauguration ceremony hastily arranged at a home in Buffalo, New York, according to the National Park Service.
—Jeremy Tanner, The Hill, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hastily
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Yet Sonos failed to act swiftly and offered inadequate fixes, according to Jefferies’ Thill.—
John Towfighi,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Teodor swiftly steps into the breach; Rakel, thrust into a supportive preacher’s-wife role that is increasingly at odds with her job as a local educator, grows skeptical that he’s really motivated by spiritual devotion.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Catch up quick: Leah Barlow, an African American Studies professor at North Carolina A&T State University, created @afamstudies as a resource for her students.—
Analis Bailey,
Axios,
15 Feb. 2025
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Trump Media became publicly traded last March after merging with a shell company called Digital World Acquisition Corp., an example of what’s called a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, which can give young companies quicker and easier routes to getting their shares trading publicly.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Read on to check out the best Presidents Day sales for Amazon Prime members, but act fast to snag them before the deals are up.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, two council members — Rodriguez and Traci Park — say the council is not moving fast enough in preparing another 2026 bond measure to build or repair fire stations.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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They could soon be joined by tens of thousands of Syrians forcibly deported by neighboring countries that may use Assad’s departure as a pretext to expel them.—
Jesse Marks,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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Book soon, past events have filled up with thousands of visitors.—
Anna Spiegel,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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They were promptly disqualified, as Ben Golliver of The Washington Post reports.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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Casino magnate Steve Wynn promptly trumped the president and gave $1 million to the club as did two other billionaires.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Hastily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hastily. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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