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Recent Examples of warp speed
Noun
Energy Singularity, the start-up in Shanghai, is just one example of China’s warp speed. Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024 And while the series peers into various factors that contributed to Aaron Hernandez’s undoing, the man himself remains a cipher: driven by desires, and pressured by his ascent from poor teen to rich celebrity at warp speed. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for warp speed 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
  • This is true for both the forces and the acceleration.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Consumers may still go for an EV, considering their many benefits, including smoother handling, fast acceleration, quiet cabin noise, and lack of dirty exhaust.
    Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump’s rapid rollout of executive actions and his willingness to talk to the press almost daily can drown out storylines that in another administration would be a days-long controversy.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 29 Jan. 2025
  • However, one in particular has been spreading at a rapid rate across America.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Defensive backs struggled to judge his easy velocity.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • If the velocity is much lower than the speed of light, then the energy is approximately: That 1/2mv2 might look familiar.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Kolkata, India Reuters — An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.
    Reuters, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Try one of the four speedy facials for refreshed skin.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Damien Martinez hit the third-fastest speed for running backs Tuesday at roughly 19.8 mph, per the Zebra MotionWorks Tracker.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The speed and mass of YR4 are subject to change as the asteroid travels through space.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Republican also acknowledged Charlotte is pushing for swift action in the legislature.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Even for many residents of Gaza, however, the swift re-emergence of the fighters, some in official uniforms, was a surprise.
    Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Whereafter, with jaw-dropping rapidity, Predonzani and his work sank into oblivion.
    Dino Buzzati, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • However, the rapidity and scale of the decline suggested a more pervasive threat.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 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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“Warp speed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warp%20speed. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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