as in reckless
having or showing a lack of concern for the consequences of one's actions
having been behind for most of the race, the stock car driver made a hell-for-leather dash to the finish
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as in quickly
with great speed
we ran hell-for-leather out of that spooky house
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Adjective
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The charges of reckless endangerment of children are because Reed is accused of firing a gun in a parking lot where children were present, North Richland Hills police spokesperson Carissa Katekaru said.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Sep. 2025 -
Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur, in contrast, cut one of the most open — stroke reckless — teams the Premier League has encountered, with different intensity levels entirely, shown above.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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These data centers will require plenty of energy, and, to that end, an agreement will be signed between the two governments enabling companies to build new nuclear power stations in both countries more quickly.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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And thanks to people like Vanessa Williams, and Silvio Horta, the creator, I was put front and center on that show kind of quickly.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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More daring vacationers can rent kayaks or hop on a whale-watching excursion, Sunset said.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Glass has become fundamentally linked with Apple’s products and architecture, including its flagship stores’ expensive and daring experiments in architectural uses of glass.—
Aki Ishida,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Today, Indri is the world’s fastest-growing Indian single malt for the second year, according to the IWSR, with over 2 million bottles sold in 2024 – with many sold internationally.—
Nish Acharya,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Rounded plastic equipment prevents potential scraps and presumably is meant to prevent daredevil kids from climbing on top of slide tunnels or jungle gym towers.—
Carrie Lukas,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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When Francis Ford Coppola finally went into production on Megalopolis, the project carried the weight of decades of anticipation and the air of a high-wire act undertaken by a beloved, daredevil octogenarian.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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In the end, the 77th Annual Emmy Awards served as both a nostalgic tribute to television’s rich past and a clear testament to its rapidly evolving future.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The decades-long strategy of cramming more transistors into the same chip area is rapidly approaching its practical limits, and conventional methods may no longer deliver consistent performance gains.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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What Heupel does differently is run plays even quicker, mix up his play calls and truly commit to the run.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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This insistence on being faithful to Gotouge’s vision — while admirable — also means that the titular Demon Slayer is barely in the first hour or so, and his sister, Nezuko isn’t in the film at all, aside from one quick aside.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Amazon Prime Video’s six-part thriller concluded with an ending that cannonballed into new territory and paddled swiftly away from the ending of Michelle Frances’ 2017 novel of the same name.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The rift now out in the open, Bidenworld swiftly hit back.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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