1
as in to scurry
to proceed or move quickly
the probe hurtled through space to its destination: Jupiter
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2
as in to throw
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
competitors taking turns hurtling their javelins down the field
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Recent Examples of hurtle
Around the same window, the Skeleton medal finals on February 14–15 bring drama to the slopes, with athletes hurtling headfirst down the track at extreme speeds in one of the most visually intense events of the Winter Olympics.
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Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Friday shutdown looms amid DHS funding debate The country is hurtling toward a partial government shutdown.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Houston continued its habit of using an array of players – Sengun, Thompson, Tari Eason – to defend Wembayama, and send him hurtling toward the court.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2026
Somewhere between 100-400 fireballs would hurtle through the sky per hour, and these would be visible to the naked eye.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
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Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Friday shutdown looms amid DHS funding debate The country is hurtling toward a partial government shutdown.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Houston continued its habit of using an array of players – Sengun, Thompson, Tari Eason – to defend Wembayama, and send him hurtling toward the court.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2026
Somewhere between 100-400 fireballs would hurtle through the sky per hour, and these would be visible to the naked eye.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hurtle
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DeMar DeRozan just slammed a water bottle to the floor, sending several courtside attendants scurrying into action to mop up the mess.—
HECTOR AMEZCUA,
Sacbee.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Each round saw the families scurry across the room to pay rent, pay off loans and rush to school and work.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The drone team stationed at ski jumping has come up with a way to catch the drone, change the battery and throw it back in the air.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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On a 2009 episode of The Rachel Zoe Project, the stylist’s last-minute work obligations threw a wrench in her plans with her then-husband, Rodger Berman.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2026
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Allen instructed deputies to meet at a rallying point instead of rushing in.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
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Cool story, kicker from Marist and all, but five short field goals, none a game-winner, wasn’t trumping Kenneth Walker III’s 135 yards rushing.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
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Curlers need an intense training regimen, dedicated to sustaining them through short bursts of cardiovascular exercise (sweeping) and keeping their legs flexible and strong to support the deep lunge position adopted when hurling the stone.—
Julia Frankel,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Nina sort of hurls the question of authenticity back to the foreign tastemakers hot on her heels.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Early in my freshman year of college, a speeding car struck my twin brother, Jim, on a street near our campus.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Warren tore her other ACL at the end of her college soccer career, recovered and relocated to Salt Lake City to commit to speed skating full-time, only to need another surgery a year later to clear up issues from the previous procedure.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
14 Feb. 2026
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Once made of glass and cherished by parade spectators who were lucky enough to catch them, today cheap plastic beaded necklaces from overseas are tossed from floats by the handful.—
TRAVIS LOLLER,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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The military stomp of the score is so tied up in the conception of Superman as an ultra-powerful Eagle Scout that the theme had to be tossed entirely when directors wanted to add a few layers of grime onto the character in the 2010s.—
Alex Galbraith,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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Residents who have returned to Indian border villages wish the officials would hurry up.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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But hurry—today is your last chance to score up to 65 percent off on best-selling styles.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Feb. 2026
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Nothing in the room, which for most 6-year-olds would feature toys flung aside and clothes sprawled on the carpet, was accidental.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Marie Lansiaux, assistant hatter at Henri Henri, said at the time, spectators who flung their hats onto the ice would go retrieve their headwear at a counter after the game.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Hurtle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurtle. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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