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Recent Examples of pronto Activists who want the waste moved, pronto, have been worrying as storms eat away the dirt road leading to the surfing beach at San Onofre. Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024 The Eagles need Jalen Hurts back pronto. Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
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Adverb
  • The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Juno & the Peacock Step into Juno & the Peacock for lunch, dinner, or weekend brunch, and you’ll be immediately taken with the stunning décor of one of St. Pete’s newest restaurants.
    Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Unlike Southampton, who promptly dispatched their second manager of this season, Ivan Juric, immediately after relegation was confirmed, there has been a hesitancy about making a change.
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Not wanting to disrupt the church function, Velasquez Cruz stepped outside to check on the monitor only to find immigration agents waiting for him, who promptly detained him.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 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
  • Editors’ Picks Lawyers for the migrants said the administration appeared to be mobilizing an effort to swiftly deport another group under the wartime powers act.
    Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Uber was appealing because using an app to instantly summon a car is much easier than chasing down a cab.
    Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Panthenol soothes the skin and strengthens the moisture barrier, and the lightly bubbling texture is instantly calming.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 21 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The Face on the News The first the world at large saw of Leake came soon after his arrest in June 2023, when Russian media released a video filmed at a detention center in Moscow.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
  • That is a lot, especially for a long-weekend, but there have been several recent additions of note—with more coming soon.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The industry has already swallowed price increases and made supply-chain shifts where possible, professionals say, and higher prices will now hit consumers, likely slowing growth in a part of the economy that’s made up of lots of small, even mom-and-pop, businesses.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The first trade war with China was a boon for Vietnam — what about now?
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 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
  • Trump paused a raft of even higher tariffs on dozens of countries for 90 days to allow time for countries to petition his Administration directly for relief.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Button-downs, summer shorts, flip-flops, stretch jeans, American flag tees—so much of my family’s wardrobe came directly from Old Navy.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Pronto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pronto. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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