gadarene

adjective

ˈga-də-ˌrēn How to pronounce gadarene (audio)
Definition of gadarenenext
as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed what began as the defection of a handful of employees soon became a gadarene exodus that threatened to leave the advertising agency understaffed

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  1. hurried
  2. flying
  3. headlong
  4. rash
  5. impulsive
  6. cursory
  7. sudden
  8. precipitate
Adjective
  • Diners harken back to a simpler time in American life before the rise of hurried drive-thrus and impersonal delivery services.
    Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The plot is hurried, leaving the actors insufficient time to find their footing.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of hurried
Adjective
  • Advertisement One of his first flying jobs was towing advertising banners, first in Florida and then in Southern California out of the Compton airport.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Hundreds of flights to and from UK airports were cancelled on what was projected to be the busiest flying day since 2019, and the Government convened its COBR crisis response.
    The Week UK, theweek, 27 July 2024
Definition of flying
Adjective
  • The show’s vibrant aesthetic and period pop score, meanwhile, provide a nostalgia trip to the early 2000s — while not shying away from what the era’s headlong embrace of social media did to our grasp on collective truth.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
  • From there things just keep happening, as one event unfolds into another in a headlong rush amid the incessant clatter of plates and pans and the machine spitting out endless order tickets.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of headlong
Adjective
  • Zika typically causes symptoms like fever, rash, and muscle aches.
    Wendy Wisner, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The intense aspects surrounding the lunation 'can lead to rash decision-making, fiery confrontations and a desire to act without fully thinking things through' Comments Prepare for one of the most potent and tumultuous lunations of the year.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of rash
Adjective
  • Both are forces of nature — Bug in an impulsive sense and Bird in a more literal manner that hints of something otherworldly about his existence.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The dread of impulsive and cataclysmic decisions in a second Trump term and thousands of federal appointments based on fealty and ideology rather than competence is met on the other side by fears that Vice President Harris won’t make meaningful personnel changes or any new or different decisions.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of impulsive
Adjective
  • However, any reader of the list with even a cursory knowledge of the European economic landscape will view the figures with skepticism, with the Fortune 500 Europe measuring companies’ revenues from 2023.
    BYRyan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The individual elements of Ka’s style would be familiar to a listener with even a cursory knowledge of rap.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of cursory
Adjective
  • These sudden eruptions of random violence seem inspired by GSC’s own experiences having to stop work to flee to bomb shelters and finding previously peaceful streets marred by the war.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
  • That part of the tale is set in motion with a sudden squall – chillingly rendered by thunder cracks (kudos to John Shivers’ sound design) and flashes of lightning (ditto to lighting designer Kevin Adams).
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of sudden
Adjective
  • To make sure that in condensing everything, there is nothing forced or too precipitate, no unwieldly jumps.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • An additional factor that has been increasingly in the mix is that old and deteriorating dam infrastructure can fail amidst excessive rainfall events and precipitate catastrophic flooding.
    Sarah Raza, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
Definition of precipitate
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