as in rushed
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
hurried shoppers who grab the wrong items ate a hurried meal
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as in accelerated
to cause to move or proceed fast or faster
the new nurses were hurried through the orientation program because they were so desperately needed on the ward
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as in sped
to proceed or move quickly
if we hurry, we'll make the four o'clock train
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Recent Examples of hurried
Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Inside an intimate pub, however, filling out the scene with empty tables could distract from the hurried, nervous nature of the filmmaker’s original intent.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2026
Shaina hurried into a room with some of Alamo’s wives.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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Adjective
Hart’s biggest save of Wednesday’s Game 1 in Colorado was another example of his edgework in a hurried situation.
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Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Inside an intimate pub, however, filling out the scene with empty tables could distract from the hurried, nervous nature of the filmmaker’s original intent.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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The baseball team beat Calvin Christian 7-1, then hurried across the plaza at SDSU — about 50 yards — to cheer the girls on.
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John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2026
Shaina hurried into a room with some of Alamo’s wives.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hurried
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Instead, Mahan and his wealthy Silicon Valley backers talked themselves into a rushed and premature campaign that was never remotely competitive.
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As immigration officers arrested her six weeks ago, through tears and a rushed goodbye, Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez had a request for her daughter.
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Video shows how chase led to deadly crash Instead of stopping, the purple car accelerated and sped through a red light, according to video from Joel’s dashboard camera.
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One of the officials told CNN that the Justice Department’s National Security Division was already preparing to look at some of the stories’ sources, but Trump’s stack accelerated the effort.
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Video shows how chase led to deadly crash Instead of stopping, the purple car accelerated and sped through a red light, according to video from Joel’s dashboard camera.
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The riders sped away after deputies attempted to contact them, reaching speeds of more than 40 mph while riding on a sidewalk, the release said.
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Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa’s coup-prone Sahel region in recent years.
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Meanwhile, some Jackson County taxing jurisdictions have criticized the county’s tax policies as hasty and damaging.
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With the tattoo tables pushed to the side, the room becomes a coliseum for adults going to war with Beyblades, a children’s toy made popular a quarter of a century ago.
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During Monday’s meeting trustees forcefully pushed back on the suggestion that there were governance improprieties.
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Pip scurried over to take a seat on my foot.
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Lee, who had extended his hitting streak to 16 games the at-bat before, scurried back to first base.
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But the prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until a person reaches their mid-to-late 20s, making young people more susceptible to impulsive behavior while gambling.
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The underlying songwriting is impulsive, but many tracks adopt a deliberately sedate mood or sort through dense clusters of cut-up loops, and Alfa’s spatialization gives the album a pallor that can resemble brain fog.
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The tradition of dragon boat races was born from the story that people raced out in boats to search for the poet and threw rice into the river so fish would not eat his body.
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Across southeast Asia, governments have raced to facilitate deployment of electric vehicles and other fuel-efficiency measures.
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“Hurried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurried. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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