1
as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
Anna later regretted her hasty decision to sell her car
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as in rapid
moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed
we all wish our sick friend a hasty recovery
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Recent Examples of hasty
If heroism is more your thing, there’s Genevieve O’Reilly shaming Chuck Schumer to death from the Senate floor and then beating her hasty retreat, or Adria Arjona playing Bix’s mental degradation after suffering so much, only to pull herself back from the brink.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025
But no use wringing your hands over a hasty purchase.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Stewart’s return partly answered the question of who would host The Daily Show, a question that had been asked for well over a year after Noah’s hasty departure.
—Peter White, Deadline, 6 June 2025
And the White House thinks now is a good time to drop everything and do a hasty bilateral trade deal?
Trade agreements are wildly complicated affairs in the best of times, taking several months, even years.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025
But no use wringing your hands over a hasty purchase.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Stewart’s return partly answered the question of who would host The Daily Show, a question that had been asked for well over a year after Noah’s hasty departure.
—Peter White, Deadline, 6 June 2025
And the White House thinks now is a good time to drop everything and do a hasty bilateral trade deal?
Trade agreements are wildly complicated affairs in the best of times, taking several months, even years.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hasty
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After a hurried recovery period in his upstate hospital, Dexter heads to New York City, where his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) has moved.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
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Here’s how Kansas and Missouri representatives and senators voted in the hurried push to pass President Trump’s massive, controversial spending bill.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2025
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But without affordable renewables (or rapid breakthroughs in nuclear fusion) the electricity to feed all those AI data centers may not arrive in time.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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With the end of military restrictions on building came rapid expansion into working-class districts.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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The app connects easily and made a quick, accurate map of my children’s bedrooms and bathroom.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
9 July 2025
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In recent years, partly due to social media, where content tagged #ADHD has hundreds of millions of views, more women are being diagnosed in their own right, though experts caution against using social media or any sort of quick questionnaire to diagnose oneself.—
Daliah Singer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 July 2025
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Outfits that once felt aspirational quickly become irrelevant, leaving behind a cycle of impulsive purchases, lukewarm satisfaction, and the constant itch for reinvention.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
8 July 2025
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Back in 1937, Winfield James, Harry Caldwell and Jimmy Pickard — three impulsive teens from Abilene, just out of high school and trying to avoid summer jobs — paddled a small canoe some 660 miles down the Colorado from Ballinger, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The finish is brisk with balanced acidity and a soft texture.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Examples of beneficial exercise include brisk walking, running, or cycling.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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There's no denying annual smartphone releases have settled into a routine—flat glass slabs with slightly faster processors and better cameras.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 July 2025
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While some savings are available to those without a Prime account, the best of these great deals and most significant discounts (as well as the fastest shipping times) are usually reserved for Prime members.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
9 July 2025
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Those symptoms include fever, cough, rash, watery eyes, runny nose and small white spots inside the mouth and throat.—
Austin American Statesman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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There's no need to really make a decision -- a rash decision -- because the guy doesn't want to go to some OTAs.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The internet, never one to wait for context, responded with swift certainty, and social feeds lit up with familiar refrains: Hill was late again.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The decision was met by swift condemnation and a legal challenge from San Francisco International Airport officials and its legal team which argued the new name would confuse travelers and was a copyright infringement.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025
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“Hasty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hasty. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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