Example Sentences

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“These prediction markets you are breathlessly defending are gambling—pure and simple.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Wall Street has breathlessly tracked weekly the pill’s prescription volume, and the early numbers briefly lifted Novo’s long-struggling stock in January.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Carefully anonymizing survivors while breathlessly chasing a client list of powerful men unintentionally sends a message about who matters most.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

When I ran breathlessly through her list of triumphs — “Anything Goes,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” among them — Farrow decreed that they should name a theater after her friend.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

The two scholars breathlessly handed the magnifying spectacles back and forth.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin