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fast-talked

past tense of fast-talk

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talked
Verb
  • Fans are urged to wear white at Ford Field.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 9 Nov. 2025
  • During that visit, then Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo urged Francis in unusually frank terms to take concrete action.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Subsequent reporting showed how Maduro loyalists infiltrated the training camps of the would-be liberators and betrayed their cause, leading to the execution of six leaders and capture of dozens of insurgents.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In a 6-4 vote, the Clovis, California, native was voted out by the original Hina tribe, plus his former tribemates Sage Ahrens-Nichols and Jawan Pitts, who betrayed their original alliance by not voting for Steven Ramm.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After tumbling from a 50-foot height, Dan Aykroyd walked away convinced that a higher power had caught him.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But Weber was always convinced that what his apparatuses were seeing was a real signal.
    Big Think, Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • And nobody likes to be tricked.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What a treat to be tricked thusly.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Philippines is one of Asia’s most flood-prone countries but this year it has also been mired in a massive corruption scandal involving flood control projects that have brought thousands of protesters out onto the streets.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Johnston wrote that the Bright Futures Fund was brought into the diocesan accounting system and was under the regular oversight of its finance office.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In fact, the term itself was an epithet throughout the founding era, a way to describe ignorant and easily deceived popular majorities, perpetually vulnerable to demagogues.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Of course someone like Denji would fall for it, and in a way, the desire to be deceived is actually an important aspect of romantic feelings.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The officials were fooled, ruling it incomplete.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The lead was brief as Andrei Svechnikov fooled Gustavsson with a low shot on the next shift.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, a Singapore resident was found guilty for masquerading as a representative of a prominent family office and running a $10 million scheme that duped people into investing in pre-IPO tech companies such as Airbnb .
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Finally, Trader Joe’s duped Smucker’s Uncrustables, which duped the American public.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Fast-talked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talked. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.

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