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Appeared in the October 24, 2025, print edition as 'Key Plant Restart Hastened'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

They tried to put it on a postage stamp saying, “Atomic Bomb Hastened War’s End.”

From Slate • May 11, 2016

Till when evening softly bore Over dune and dell, Hastened we with golden store Home to Queen and cell.

From Nuova or The New Bee by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)

By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain’d and continued.

From Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. by Wadsworth, James

Hastened the bright-faced dame to bear their potions to them, the wondrous lady to the chiefs; and reluctantly to the pallid Atli the festal dainties offered, and uttered words of hate.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson