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hurtles

  • present tense form
    of hurtle (3rd person singular).
    hurtle
    verb (used without object)
    to rush violently; move with great speed.

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Hall could be heard exclaiming, as the unusual-looking raccoon hurtles across a pavement and up some nearby steps.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

For public companies, so-called “related-party transactions” are publicly disclosed in regulatory filings, but Altman’s personal investments remain opaque as OpenAI hurtles towards a public listing later this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

A few months and one tutorial from Anthropic’s Claude AI model later, Marks’ latest investment memo has the header “AI hurtles ahead.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

“The Secret Agent” isn’t tightly coiled so much as it gradually unfolds, its full meaning unclear until the filmmaker eventually hurtles forward nearly 50 years, snapping the final puzzle piece into place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Here the Metro hurtles beneath the sidewalk: that’s the Quai Saint-Bernard.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr