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as in accelerating
to cause to move or proceed fast or faster
hasten the activation of yeast with heat
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as in hurrying
to proceed or move quickly
the contractors hastened to complete the project before the deadline
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Recent Examples of hastening
Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
Machado embraced Kim, hastening his acclimation to MLB.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025
You are propelled alongside them as Agnes, sensing William’s creative and professional frustrations, packs him off to London to follow his dreams, hastening the pair’s descent into marital discontent and parental grief.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
Already touting a 1-million-robot arsenal across its fulfillment network, Amazon is leaning into more robotics tech aimed at hastening warehouse tasks and facilitating faster deliveries.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
But in 2016, a bombshell study in Nature concluded that crumbling ice cliffs could trigger a runaway process of retreat, dramatically hastening the timeline.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
African nations are hastening to restrict the export of key metals, hoping to generate domestic jobs and revenue.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Salt absorbs moisture, thus hastening the drying process.
—Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
This not only proves fruitless, but the probes seem to be hastening the closing of the wormhole.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
The wife of a man who killed himself after his home burned down in the Palisades fire is among more than a dozen plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits blaming the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other defendants for causing or hastening the deaths of their relatives.
—Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
Machado embraced Kim, hastening his acclimation to MLB.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025
You are propelled alongside them as Agnes, sensing William’s creative and professional frustrations, packs him off to London to follow his dreams, hastening the pair’s descent into marital discontent and parental grief.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
Already touting a 1-million-robot arsenal across its fulfillment network, Amazon is leaning into more robotics tech aimed at hastening warehouse tasks and facilitating faster deliveries.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
But in 2016, a bombshell study in Nature concluded that crumbling ice cliffs could trigger a runaway process of retreat, dramatically hastening the timeline.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
African nations are hastening to restrict the export of key metals, hoping to generate domestic jobs and revenue.
—Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Salt absorbs moisture, thus hastening the drying process.
—Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
This not only proves fruitless, but the probes seem to be hastening the closing of the wormhole.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hastening
Noun
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This is then funneled through nozzles to generate thrust with a high degree of acceleration – or specific-impulse (Isp).—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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The cooldown ended a monthslong acceleration of price increases and offered some relief for households strained by cost hikes.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Despite re-accelerating growth while expanding its AI narrative, NET has failed to convert fundamentals into durable upside.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
14 Jan. 2026
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But for large industrial firms—for OEMs of turbines, compressors, chillers, heavy machinery—the real value is in accelerating engineering itself.—
Paul Eremenko,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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But one weekend in November, people who would typically be hurrying by, staring down at their phones, stopped.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Butler began hurrying Boise State and pushing up the tempo, which allowed the Broncos to score off several backdoor cuts and slip screens for big dunks and layups at the rim.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The quickening of time will soon expose a partial, temporary truth, lodged within my grandmother’s premonition.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Kubiak found that easy to navigate with a conservative game plan in the season finale at the 49ers with a rushing attack that had 39 attempts for 180 yards while the Seahawks’ defense was muffling the opposition.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Neither will rushing to judgment without due process.—
Harvey Levine,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The manufacturers and developers at the hearing told legislators that creating incentives, simplifying building codes and speeding up project reviews would help the industry grow.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Dash camera video captured the teen speeding away from the traffic stop and narrowly missing a deputy standing in the road.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Kennedy Botts with Sisters PGH, a nonprofit serving the Black transgender community, is pushing back on that argument.—
Lauren Linder,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Friends of the Everglades is pushing for 160 square miles of additional conservation land in the Everglades Agricultural Area, to create space for 1 million more acre-feet of water storage.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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If seeing one scurrying through your living room sends you scrambling for a quick remedy, your instincts are on track.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
1 Jan. 2026
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Investigators are now once again searching for the person who was seen dressed in all black and scurrying down a street in the Rhode Island capital around the time of the shooting in video released to the public on Saturday night.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Hastening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hastening. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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