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Recent Examples of warp speed
Noun
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 See All Example Sentences for warp speed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
  • 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
  • To the natural cruelty of people, young and old, which exists with and without digital acceleration?
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Its development played a critical role in the NBA team’s rapid rise to becoming the league’s most valuable team at $9.14 billion.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • In other January texts, the mayor told political allies the city was undergoing a new Reconstruction era, an allusion to the period of rapid but ultimately halted Black advancement after the Civil War.
    Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The instrument seeks out planets by detecting the subtle wobble of stars as the gravity of orbiting planets tug on their stellar hosts, known as the radial velocity technique.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • If buyers initiate the velocity max feature, the vehicle can reach 750 horsepower and 785 pound-feet of torque, Cadillac said.
    Jackie Charniga, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The 67-foot-long aircraft will be able to carry up to eight passengers, with an 800-nautical-mile range and a cruise speed of about 357 mph.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2025
  • And while most microwaves today have a slew of speed buttons preset to reheat common foods like pizza or a cup of coffee, an informal polling of my friends and family revealed that most of us do not use them.
    Meg St-Esprit, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • His swift actions were critical in stopping the attack and preventing further harm.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Apr. 2025.

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