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Schwartz said Lanza may have been starving himself and that his anorexia probably was hastening his mental as well as physical deterioration.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2018

The Red Boss had been guilty of some similar slips in an interview with Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Khrushchev was hastening to dissociate himself from the Almighty.

From Time Magazine Archive

To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.

From Time Magazine Archive

One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out:

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen