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Recent Examples of warp speed
Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
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
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Noun
These days, everything in the workplace seems to be changing at warp speed.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
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With crypto adoption and acceleration continuing in 2025, the year is increasingly looking like the year stablecoins go definitively mainstream.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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China's significant reductions in air pollution over the past 15 years have inadvertently contributed to an acceleration in global warming, according to a new international study.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Defending the Intercontinental Championship on such a grand stage is a testament to his rapid ascent within the company.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Since taking office, the Trump administration has implemented rapid, significant changes to United States immigration policy.—
Albert Sun,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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At low heights, though, the water’s velocity was too slow to effectively move through the coffee bed.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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There, it is accelerated to velocities approaching the speed of light.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Isaacman’s confirmation hearing - set to be live-streamed and chaired by Senator Ted Cruz, a powerful booster of NASA’s space advances - could lead to speedy approval by the full Senate for his ascent to head the globe’s premier aerospace agency.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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While officials insisted all 200-plus deportees who were sent to El Salvador on March 15 were members of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), the AEA allowed speedy removal without a court hearing.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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No two giants share the same building speed (fastest, second fastest, third fastest, slowest) or the same problem.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Moreover, working the long head emphasizes the eccentric portion of a move—the part when the muscle is lengthening under load—which is a more effective way to improve strength, power, and speed performance compared to traditional resistance training, according to research.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Crisis Planning As new challenges come afoot, is the company’s crisis communication plan updated to deliver a swift response?—
Andrea Aker,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Be swift with SwiftScan VIP's lifetime subscription access to the app and scanning tools, now just $41.99 (reg.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Each user prompt on Ocean includes a live speed test indicator, giving a transparent view of our system’s rapidity.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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 15 Apr. 2025.
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