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Recent Examples of warp speed
Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025
Sometimes songs blow up at warp speed because of some nefarious industry marketing schemes.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Energy Singularity, the start-up in Shanghai, is just one example of China’s warp speed.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
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Robot vacuums have been innovating at warp speed over the last few years, with many now capable of almost fully autonomous operation to sweep and mop your floors.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025
Sometimes songs blow up at warp speed because of some nefarious industry marketing schemes.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Energy Singularity, the start-up in Shanghai, is just one example of China’s warp speed.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
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Wall Street analysts at the time also continued to celebrate revenue acceleration of Microsoft’s Azure, its crucial cloud computing division.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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To the natural cruelty of people, young and old, which exists with and without digital acceleration?—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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These abundant growing vegetables (or fruit?) produce at such rapid speeds that planting them too close together is asking for problems, like stunted growth, plant disease, and a smaller harvest.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
30 Mar. 2025
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According to a 2024 study published by Realtor.com, Texas accounted for 15 percent of new housing permits issued across the U.S., despite only making up 9 percent of its population, helping to keep prices and rents relatively cheap despite the rapid inflow of people.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025
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Throughout the past decade, pitchers have turned their focus to training techniques that increase their average velocity and the over-all movement of the ball—even at the expense of throwing strikes.—
Lindsey Adler,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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The new one also has more velocity, moving in the high 70s, about 10 mph faster than his old one.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Denver Broncos - Matthew Golden, WR, Texas Another huge riser in the draft prospect rankings goes right after in Golden, a speedy receiver out of Texas.—
Seth Quinn,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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The White House is trying to have it every way possible in a high-stakes dispute over its speedy deportation of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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Only one American has won three golds at one Winter Olympics — fellow Wisconsin speed skater Eric Heiden.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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And hurricane-force gusts can roar across the base at speeds of up to 125 mph.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Knowledge of actual prices will empower employers and unions to design affordable health plans with billing and payment integrity and will allow swift remedy and recourse for overcharges.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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His swift actions were critical in stopping the attack and preventing further harm.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Those opportunities would be valuable at any pace, but combined with the rapidity of these solo rollouts, the BLACKPINK members have worked toward a type of ubiquity that has no doubt shaken some unfamiliar listeners awake.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
6 Mar. 2025
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The muscles around the knee tend to shut down and shrink with startling rapidity once all that inflammation builds up around a torn ACL.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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“Warp speed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warp%20speed. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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