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adjective

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Recent Examples of warp speed
Noun
Word of mouth among juveniles travels at warp speed. Armstrong Williams, Oc Register, 2 Sep. 2025 In the new movie starring Denzel Washington, the camera rollicks, the edit clips at warp speed, and the sound mix explodes in Lee's coruscating New York — but the primordial ethical conflict at its heart simmers the same. Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
This isn't your average stroll through lightsaber lore or warp-speed factoids. Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025 But an equally vital industry for our economic and national security interests is telecommunications — which is also going through warp-speed technology changes. Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warp speed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
  • Players can mix and match pieces to build vehicles that excel at top seed, acceleration, handling, boost usage or build (which is used to knock into other racers).
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • According to Albertson, the challenge lies in maintaining precision in acceleration.
    Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Employers can tap our natural human urge to connect through culture-building and clear organizational purpose – especially during rapid transformation like the AI revolution and other economic pressures.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hawke sells all of Hart’s delusions, destructive impulses, and high-velocity downward spirals with an energy that keeps this bitchy, old-school collection of bon mots and screwball bickering moving along nicely.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Almost all spacecraft sent to deep space — including the Voyager probes, Juno, Cassini-Huygens, and Galileo — must execute gravity assist maneuvers, slingshotting around planets to gain velocity for their vast treks.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Boise State football’s high-flying and speedy sophomore running back has wowed fans in 2025, emerging as the backfield guy who’s a home-run threat on nearly every carry.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 19 Oct. 2025
  • How does Starlink extend speedy internet access to remote locations?
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That’s the top speed for a 49ers ball carrier so far.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Why Arc's hypersonic speed could change aerospace testing Beyond rapid delivery, Arc doubles as a hypersonic testing platform.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet this claim conceals the fact that registration is swift for compliant unions but obstructed for independent ones.
    Sourcing Journal, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
  • With segregationists in control of the federal government, Wilson took swift action.
    Time, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This rapidity of implementation means that attorneys cannot wait to see how things might develop but must start preparing, or at least learning about it, now.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Other snags are purely visual, notably the capper to the scene where King must toss the bag of ransom millions at a specific time and place, from a speeding elevated train.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Warp speed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warp%20speed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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