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hell-for-leather

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adverb

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell-for-leather
Adjective
  • An arrest warrant was obtained for Lacy for negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Reinoso-Gallegos was arrested without incident and transported to Troop H where he was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle at too slow speed and second-degree reckless endangerment.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • General manager Chris MacFarland’s daring and dramatic midseason overhaul of his roster has remade, reinvented and reinvigorated the Avalanche.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Which is what the U.S. will be celebrating next year, marking our daring break from Great Britain and the founding of the nation.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Khosrowshahi said the changes will help Uber move faster.
    Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The House caps growth in the Medicaid budget at the CPI for medical care, which grows much faster.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Bucs need more daredevil defenders who can wheel and steal the football.
    Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
  • That would be daredevil buddies Max and Benj Cave (brothers whose middle names are both Storror), Callum and Sacha Powell (also brothers), Drew Taylor, Toby Segar and Josh Burnett-Blake, who started out simply horsing around, filming pranks and sharing them online.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • China’s leaders seem to expect America’s political feedback loop will kick in quicker and sharper for Trump than for Xi Jinping.
    Ryan Hass, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The company, which was founded nearly a decade ago, has hit $1 billion in revenue quicker than any other precision oncology lab company, per the analyst.
    Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The South, for its part, responded in kind: secession swiftly forged a fractured region into a reactive unity, bound by fear of emancipation and faith in a mythic agrarian freedom.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Elected last year on a promise to crack down on migrants, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in an attempt to swiftly deport accused members of Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang originating from Venezuelan prisons that his administration labels a terrorist group.
    Andrew Chung, Luc Cohen, Kristina Cooke, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Every 30 days, expect an array of songs, diverse and delicious, served hot off the flat-top and waiting to be wolfed down.
    Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Krasinski will also serve as a producer, coming hot off the heels of his family fantasy IF, and the continued success of his A Quiet Place franchise.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Adverb
  • And soon after, China got in on the action too, joining the WTO in 2001 and fully integrating into the global trade system like a kid finally allowed at the adult table – who would later proceed to totally dominate the manufacturing of every other table.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • PepsiCo lowered its full-year profit outlook, while Procter & Gamble cut its earnings forecast and warned that consumers should expect higher prices soon.
    Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Hell-for-leather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell-for-leather. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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