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the hastily put together report contained a lot of errors
the congresswoman hastily made her way towards the waiting elevator
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These journalistic impulses appear compulsory and hastily satisfied; the earlier, eventless reality TV sheen seems a haven of human insight by comparison.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Five minutes before the show was to start, nine rows of bleachers in a temporary grandstand, hastily assembled, quivered and crashed, swallowing about 600 men, women and children.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
The days of hastily assembling a Big Three in one offseason—like the Boston Celtics did in 2007 and the Miami Heat did in 2010—legitimately might be endangered.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
There is room for about only 800 seats inside the Capitol Rotunda, so when Donald J. Trump’s inauguration was hastily moved indoors, that meant whoever made it inside was going to have to sit cheek-to-jowl.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Five minutes before the show was to start, nine rows of bleachers in a temporary grandstand, hastily assembled, quivered and crashed, swallowing about 600 men, women and children.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
The days of hastily assembling a Big Three in one offseason—like the Boston Celtics did in 2007 and the Miami Heat did in 2010—legitimately might be endangered.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
There is room for about only 800 seats inside the Capitol Rotunda, so when Donald J. Trump’s inauguration was hastily moved indoors, that meant whoever made it inside was going to have to sit cheek-to-jowl.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Hastily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hastily. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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