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adverb

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hell-for-leather
Adjective
  • For instance, an officer or insurance adjuster might claim your lack of footwear contributed to reckless or careless driving, and the matter could even be brought up in court or during an insurance review.
    Georgea Kovanis, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Set in 1968 suburbia, Father of Us follows five siblings caught between their magnetic but reckless father and their radiant but overwhelmed mother.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The Justice Department provided the files in response to a subpoena from the committee, but Democrats and some Republicans quickly noted that the cache was made up mostly of material already available in the public domain.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Antisemitism, white supremacy, conspiracy theories, even school shooter videos quickly flood young men’s and even children’s timelines, said Miller-Idriss, the Manosphere researcher.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The novel isn’t still, either, throwing us into a fast-paced, daring, but tender investigation into the role of ambition in art.
    Eliana Ramage September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As described in a press release, CAOS is the singer’s most daring and intimate body of work yet.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This happens when water in front of the tire builds up faster than the vehicle's weight can push water out of the way.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Mornings are also heating up faster than afternoons.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • To maintain tanks’ relevance, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have covered them in different configurations of armor as ad hoc solutions to rapidly shifting tactics.
    Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • AeroVironment highlighted that the AMP-HEL prototyping effort is part of the Army’s broader modernization initiative to rapidly develop and field DE solutions to defeat a range of threats, including drones and other airborne systems.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • If your flowering plants are spent, add some quick-growing annuals for a pop of color in the garden.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Harris portrays a free-spirited yet quick-calculating middleman with playful wit.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Even 6 inches of swiftly moving water can forcefully knock you off your feet.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In Giulio Bertelli’s striking debut feature film Agon, which had its premiere in Venice this week, the 2024 Olympics are swiftly approaching.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Hell-for-leather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hell-for-leather. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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