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Recent Examples of warp speed
Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Robot vacuums have been innovating at warp speed over the last few years, with many now capable of almost fully autonomous operation to sweep and mop your floors.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025
Sometimes songs blow up at warp speed because of some nefarious industry marketing schemes.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Noun
These days, everything in the workplace seems to be changing at warp speed.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
Robot vacuums have been innovating at warp speed over the last few years, with many now capable of almost fully autonomous operation to sweep and mop your floors.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2025
Sometimes songs blow up at warp speed because of some nefarious industry marketing schemes.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warp speed
Noun
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With crypto adoption and acceleration continuing in 2025, the year is increasingly looking like the year stablecoins go definitively mainstream.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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China's significant reductions in air pollution over the past 15 years have inadvertently contributed to an acceleration in global warming, according to a new international study.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Defending the Intercontinental Championship on such a grand stage is a testament to his rapid ascent within the company.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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The rapid rise of ransomware attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities and data breaches has created an environment of persistent uncertainty, leaving organizations grappling with how to stay resilient in the face of evolving threats.—
Francis Dinha,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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At low heights, though, the water’s velocity was too slow to effectively move through the coffee bed.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ben Rice’s average exit velocity Many Yankees fans were clamoring for the return of Anthony Rizzo last season while Rice posted a .171 batting average with 48 strikeouts in 152 at-bats.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Breezing with dispatch around the speedy Neoequos and Madaket Road, who had been a pacesetters up the backstretch, Tappan Street took his almost electrically precise stride well outside the fading duelists to lay down his burst of power.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Cora pinch-ran for Campbell with the speedy David Hamilton, further pressuring the defense.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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No two giants share the same building speed (fastest, second fastest, third fastest, slowest) or the same problem.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Moreover, working the long head emphasizes the eccentric portion of a move—the part when the muscle is lengthening under load—which is a more effective way to improve strength, power, and speed performance compared to traditional resistance training, according to research.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Crisis Planning As new challenges come afoot, is the company’s crisis communication plan updated to deliver a swift response?—
Andrea Aker,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Be swift with SwiftScan VIP's lifetime subscription access to the app and scanning tools, now just $41.99 (reg.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Each user prompt on Ocean includes a live speed test indicator, giving a transparent view of our system’s rapidity.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Those opportunities would be valuable at any pace, but combined with the rapidity of these solo rollouts, the BLACKPINK members have worked toward a type of ubiquity that has no doubt shaken some unfamiliar listeners awake.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
6 Mar. 2025
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Electrons in solids tend to bump into atoms instead of moving uninterrupted, so being able to control them with such celerity was crucial for the team to carry out its Peter-Pan-and-his-shadow manipulation of the electron and the hole.—
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan,
Scientific American,
8 Dec. 2021
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The list goes on, but the difference between now and centuries ago is the frequency and celerity with which materials move between continents and the increasing intensity of climate change.—
Claire Marie Porter,
WIRED,
2 Aug. 2019
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“Warp speed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warp%20speed. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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