careered

verb

past tense of career
as in sped
to proceed or move quickly she careered off to the class she'd almost forgotten

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Recent Examples of careered As the fugitive car careered along the narrow road, the passenger started heaving out hindquarters of venison. — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for careered
  1. sped
  2. raced
  3. hurried
  4. trotted
  5. scurried
  6. drove
  7. rushed
  8. traveled
Verb
  • The bulk of the original tale — Lara’s encounter with her sea witch aunt Grace, her emergence into the world of humans, her romance with a dashing prince — is sped through in the show’s first 15 minutes.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
  • Prosecutors said Garcia got into her car, pushed her out of the driver’s seat and sped off in her vehicle.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of sped
Verb
  • Huffy, a brand once dismissed by some but historically durable and even Olympic-raced, has successfully reinvented itself in the e-bike market.
    — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Right fielder Wilyer Abreu raced home, tying the game at 4-4.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of raced
Verb
  • But morning travelers include schoolchildren, teen drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and workers who may be tired or hurried.
    — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
  • The ramyeon in the pot burbled over, and Bo hurried to the stove to turn off the gas.
    — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Definition of hurried
Verb
  • Ohtani trotted home on his bad knee – which will prevent him from pitching indefinitely but not hitting – when Freddie Freeman dumped a two-out, two-strike RBI single into center field.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 20 July 2026
  • Joe Biden famously trotted across the road shaking hands and kissing babies during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade in 2015.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026
Definition of trotted
Verb
  • That’s when someone from the crew scurried onstage, presumably to take away the microphones and set the stage for the next act.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
  • One rainy afternoon in August, Jean Booth scurried up the stairs of a nondescript Thai restaurant tucked into a strip mall off the highway, shook out her blue, shoulder-length hair and took out her phone.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of scurried
Verb
  • The Jayhawks defeated Wichita State on Monday in Wichita, drove back to Lawrence on Tuesday morning, then boarded the bus for Lexington late Tuesday afternoon.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
  • The Iran war triggered a historic oil shortage that drove up fuel costs and catapulted inflation to a three-year high in May, the same month Warsh took the helm of the central bank.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of drove
Verb
  • Rainwater rushed into Filament Theatre in the Portage Park neighborhood on Monday as severe storms pounded the Chicago area.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • But this time around, Mohn, who was with a friend when the medical emergency unfolded, was rushed to the hospital.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Definition of rushed
Verb
  • Mohammad Taj, who travelled to Delhi from neighboring Haryana state, and whose face was badly bruised in the Monday crackdown, said the march heading to parliament had been peaceful.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • Coronilla Durán traveled from his hometown of San Luis de la Paz, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, to Atlanta to visit family and friends, according to Isaret Jeffers, founder of Colectivo Arbol, a farmworkers advocacy group.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 July 2026
Definition of traveled

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