1
as in speed
a high rate of movement or performance
made haste to get there on time
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2
as in hustle
excited and often showy or disorderly speed
haste makes waste in her haste, she forgot her keys
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Recent Examples of haste
One call indicated that the state might not have properly vetted an employee in its haste to operationalize the facility.
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Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
Now, each one of them will look to make haste in their respective chase for a state championship.
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Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
28 May 2026
Joplin doctors are already seeing serious infections from wounds that were patched in haste out of dire need.
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Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
Many of the gravestones in this makeshift cemetery have no full names, only the fighter's nom de guerre, because they were buried in the haste of war.
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Emily Feng,
NPR,
17 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for haste
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
Now, each one of them will look to make haste in their respective chase for a state championship.
—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
28 May 2026
Joplin doctors are already seeing serious infections from wounds that were patched in haste out of dire need.
—
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
Many of the gravestones in this makeshift cemetery have no full names, only the fighter's nom de guerre, because they were buried in the haste of war.
—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
17 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for haste
Recent Examples of Synonyms for haste
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Making his 60th major-league appearance as an outfielder, Brice Matthews made a wonderful read on Vierling’s 328-foot fly ball, used his 82nd-percentile sprint speed to get into the gap and made a sliding catch to preserve Houston’s chance at a fifth consecutive series victory.
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Drive at a reduced speed during wet weather.
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The 6-foot-11 Condon rebounds relentlessly, protects the rim, delivers uncanny passes and makes winning plays, none bigger than his hustle to secure Florida’s comeback victory against Houston in the 2025 national championship game.
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Despite the desert views, Santa Fe’s plaza—with the hustle and bustle of its restaurants, as well as Indigenous artists selling their wares—is only two miles away, for the best of both worlds.
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Your sentences have great velocity.
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The asteroid could, for example, be a contact binary, according to Michel, in which two separate bodies came together at low velocities.
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Silicon Valley — home to companies such as Apple, Nvidia, Google and Meta — has become the center of another modern rush, driven by artificial intelligence and the promise of transformative wealth.
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The pitch is not that London has never seen healthy food for busy people before, but that the smoothie—a category often caught between gym slop and shopping-centre sugar rushes—could be made credible.
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Evans worked as an off-the-ball floor spacer with the ability to heat up from outside in a hurry while shooting 38% from behind the arc through two seasons.
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His hushed, ragged whisper feels suitably weathered, fitting a collection of songs that never are in a hurry.
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Besides, just as the cruelty is the point of everything this administration does so, too, is the hastiness.
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The most common uses of cloud seeding are to increase precipitation or suppress hail, usually by adding tiny particles of silver iodide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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That legacy, combined with rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns — hallmarks of a warming world — have caused severe fires, resulting in widespread tree death, to now be more common than beneficial fires in California, the new study found.
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“Haste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haste. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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