crash program
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crash program
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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“We need a crash program for a high-low mix in munitions,” including offensive fires and interceptors, GOP Sen. Roger Wicker said at a recent hearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
In the early 1980s, he led the fight against a crash program to map all human genes, fearing, once again, unknown consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
Rachael said, “Our present crash program and overall planning call for us to obtain an additional owl which can mate with Scrappy.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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