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Recent Examples of warp speed
Noun
What Sun in Virgo Square Jupiter in Gemini Means for Your Zodiac Sign Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Life is moving at warp speed, Libra! Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2024 Its general aura just smoothed out at warp speeds, like that part in the opening credits of Star Trek where the spaceship hangs for a moment and then disappears into deep space. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 9 Sep. 2024 Just over a week into her presidential campaign and just under 100 days until the election, the Harris campaign is constructing an economic platform at warp speed, working to flesh out her position on key policy issues. Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024 The Star Trek Universe keeps expanding at warp speed. Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for warp speed 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
  • Even with this acceleration in China revenue since Nvidia was hit with export restrictions in Q4 2023, China’s contribution remains lower than historical levels, in the low 20% region.
    Beth Kindig, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In the note, Keane wrote that Square payments volume growth has likely already bottomed, pointing to an acceleration in volume in October.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The company’s rapid growth since its Series A round underlines customer appetite for such solutions.
    David Prosser, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Aggressively low prices, rapid turnaround times, and unpredictable production schedules can put substantial financial strain on suppliers.
    Áine Clarke, Sourcing Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Read more Solar system Watch: NASA Experts Discuss Mission to 'Touch the Sun' Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Floor of Bones in City Center Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers detected and measured the high velocities of the D9 stars.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Here, the faster surface velocity of the rotating Earth means that a rocket can deliver around 24 percent more power than one fired from the Kennedy Space Center but with the same amount of thrust.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The speediest of its four crossings so far to New York took 17 days, and just 15 days on the return trip to Saint-Malo.
    Brooke Seipel, Fortune Europe, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But in September, Lenox, the public defender, argued that Naresh Bhatt was still entitled to a speedy trial on the count of concealing a dead body.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The officer stopped at the intersection and, after stopping, continued through the intersection at a low speed and was struck by a vehicle traveling north on College Avenue.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Total Wireless has also introduced unlimited data on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network that promises to be up to 10 times faster than the median download speeds of other providers.
    Molly Higgins, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The river was swift and unrelenting, its currents carrying victim after victim downstream.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Wider international condemnation of the government's response has been swift.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • However, the rapidity and scale of the decline suggested a more pervasive threat.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The remarkable thing about this progression is its extreme rapidity.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Electrons in solids tend to bump into atoms instead of moving uninterrupted, so being able to control them with such celerity was crucial for the team to carry out its Peter-Pan-and-his-shadow manipulation of the electron and the hole.
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The list goes on, but the difference between now and centuries ago is the frequency and celerity with which materials move between continents and the increasing intensity of climate change.
    Claire Marie Porter, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2019

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