hasten
verb (used without object)
has hastened
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present perfectof hasten (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Recently, social media has hastened the celebrity of animals such as Grumpy Cat and JiffPom the Pomeranian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
The company has in recent years grappled with supply chain issues and a post-pandemic slowdown in demand, which has hastened its push into software offerings like cybersecurity.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
Vaccine developers had always planned to tweak their original Covid vaccines as new variants emerged, but the arrival of the fast-spreading Omicron strain in the last two months has hastened that process.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2022
The past year has hastened that upheaval, forcing us to rely on cyber, rather than physical, space.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
Yes, a poor, weak woman has heard their despairing cry and has hastened to succor them.
From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler
