crash program
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crash program
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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“They cause hundreds of injuries, and have resulted in massive numbers of claims and payouts in settlements. LA City Officials must act now to jumpstart a crash program to fix these sidewalks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2026
That would take significantly more time than building a bulky, crude nuclear device in a monthslong crash program, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Manhattan Project, the World War II–era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023
Bright says he lobbied for a crash program to make COVID-19 vaccines—a pandemic “Manhattan Project”—which Navarro spelled out in a memo on 9 February 2020 to the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2022
The guiding principle was that a crash program to build the Super bomb required a Los Alamos of its own, and that place should be Livermore.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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