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Recent Examples of warp speed
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
In a city where traffic rarely eases and culture shifts at warp speed, Atiyya NaDirah has emerged as one of Atlanta's most recognizable and unfiltered digital storytellers.
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Alexa Liacko,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
Chris Anderson,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
The guy who chased down Crinon is also the guy who opened the scoring with some net-front clean-up work, and the guy who started a warp-speed rush by Celebrini and McDavid, resulting in a goal by the latter.
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Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Noun
But Kramer was outside the government, with friends dying, blisteringly aware of the ways in which the official instinct toward bureaucracy was dragging out a scientific process that needed to be moving at, to quote a more modern enterprise, warp speed.
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Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
In a city where traffic rarely eases and culture shifts at warp speed, Atiyya NaDirah has emerged as one of Atlanta's most recognizable and unfiltered digital storytellers.
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Alexa Liacko,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
The company was known for regularly producing faster and more powerful chips to keep pace with the warp-speed changes and demands of technology.
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Chris Anderson,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
The guy who chased down Crinon is also the guy who opened the scoring with some net-front clean-up work, and the guy who started a warp-speed rush by Celebrini and McDavid, resulting in a goal by the latter.
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Sean Gentille,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
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The new Everpure Data Stream optimizes enterprise data for real-time AI workloads, streamlining preparation and ensuring secure, scalable access, leveraging GPU acceleration.
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Her mission is to continue acceleration of the brand’s focus on performance footwear.
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Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.
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Improvements in blood tests, meanwhile, dovetail with rapid developments in treatments for various cancers, making the disease ever more survivable or even curable.
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Just 10 years ago, the average fastball velocity across the league was 93 mph.
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Budget allocation affects inventory velocity, which feeds back into margin.
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In the meantime, LAX visitors must wait to soar above local traffic and make a speedy exit via rail.
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Feeding the graphics is a Blackwell-series RTX 5070, perfectly suited for speedy performance at this exact resolution.
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This time, the study included a vocabulary of over 1,000 words and achieved a median speed of 78 words per minute.
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Weah acknowledged Mbappe’s speed and performance after his brace helped France to a 2-1 win.
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Social media reactions were swift to spot the similarities to the classic skate shoe.
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The night was packed with finishes, including Murtazali Magomedov's rare twister submission and Levan Chokheli's swift TKO.
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My line supply decreases with distressing rapidity.
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Matthew Arnold, in the 19th century, famously said the qualities of Homer are the plainness, the rapidity, and the nobility.
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As if rapping from a speeding time machine, Wiki flows about yellow taxis turning into Uber Eats over an instrumental that cruises from a soft breakbeat into a total breakdown of glitchy scratches courtesy of Lil Ugly Mane.
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Josh is faster than a speeding linebacker, more powerful than a defensive lineman, and able to leap tall safeties in a single bound.
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“Warp speed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warp%20speed. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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