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Kuwait is careering towards unbearable temperatures - it is regularly hotter than 50C.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021

Sergio Garcia is careering his way around Royal St George’s in his trademark entertaining, erratic, eccentric style.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2021

South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation and an example of U.S. intervention that officials were proud to boast about just a few years ago, is careering once again into chaos.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016

It is as if, once it’s started up, there’s no slowing down, no stopping; the car is careering down a mountain, with no brakes.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016

He is careering about; I feel that I am trembling like a leaf.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 by Various