as in impulsive
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
that was too rash a move, for now I've lost my bishop and probably the whole chess game
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Recent Examples of rash
Devi Shastri, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
The rash spread all over her face and arms and soon down to her legs.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 13 June 2025
The View From The Lane, New York Times, 18 June 2025
People are annoyed with each other, which creates needless disputes, rash actions and hastiness.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
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Adjective
Measles first infects the respiratory tract, then spreads throughout the body, causing a high fever, runny nose, cough, red, watery eyes and a rash.
—Devi Shastri, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
The rash spread all over her face and arms and soon down to her legs.
—Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 13 June 2025
Noun
But when that isn’t the case, there are sloppy mistakes and rash decisions.
—The View From The Lane, New York Times, 18 June 2025
People are annoyed with each other, which creates needless disputes, rash actions and hastiness.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rash
Adjective
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Outfits that once felt aspirational quickly become irrelevant, leaving behind a cycle of impulsive purchases, lukewarm satisfaction, and the constant itch for reinvention.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
8 July 2025
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Back in 1937, Winfield James, Harry Caldwell and Jimmy Pickard — three impulsive teens from Abilene, just out of high school and trying to avoid summer jobs — paddled a small canoe some 660 miles down the Colorado from Ballinger, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Ticket Information The crypt beneath the historic St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street contains Roman pavements, medieval foundations, and even plague burial sites.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Health and safety issues plague hotels used as emergency shelters across the state.—
Spencer Norris,
ProPublica,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Yet in spite of its rather hurried origins, it’s gone on to become a General Motors success story in the quarter-century since it was created.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
17 June 2025
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And the hurried pace of the deportations has ignored due process, experts and advocates say.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
Noun
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They were born out of a pitiless epidemic, as a poignant yet futile attempt to allow his subjects to live forever on film.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 June 2025
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The World Health Organization this week released its tenth report on the global tobacco epidemic, a status update on its anti-smoking campaigns.—
Katharina Buchholz,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Given the sudden burst of interest, agentic AI risks becoming something that’s all too common in business: a topic that everyone is talking about, but that few people actually understand.—
Tomas Gorny,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Her particular specialism is making sudden bursts towards the near post, staying in the defender’s blind spot before suddenly jumping ahead of her marker to turn home a simple chance, often laid on a plate at club level by Caroline Graham Hansen, with whom Pajor also worked well at Wolfsburg.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
Noun
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The Wolf Fire joins a spate of brush fires that have broken out in the region, including in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.—
Leah Sarnoff,
ABC News,
29 June 2025
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But the increasingly obvious wastefulness of that approach has also bred a spate of marvelous mash-ups.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Such shifts would allow Washington to update its global force posture without hasty changes that surprise allies and create security gaps leading to deterrence failures.—
REBECCA LISSNER,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Analysts and investors say that may have been a little hasty.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
16 June 2025
Noun
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Search and Rescue is a volunteer on-the-ground team that uses drones, K-9 units, rafts, and more to comb large areas in the aftermath of natural disasters.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
7 July 2025
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The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.—
John Nogowski,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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“Rash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rash. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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