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• n  changing location rapidly
• v  move fast
• v  move faster
• v  move very fast
• v  travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
  I got a ticket for speeding
• v  cause to move faster

• The soldiers had apparently panicked at the speeding Hummer and attacked it from two sides, killing both the civilians and their own troops in the cross fire.
• Bush will also call for speeding up the 2001 tax breaks for all income brackets, to goose consumer spending.
• Once I got a 85-mph speeding ticket in it.

• speed
• hurrying
• rush
• hotfoot
• hasten
• hie
• race
• pelt along
• rush along
• cannonball along
• bucket along
• belt along
• step on it
• accelerate
• speed up
• quicken
• travel rapidly
• hurry
• zip

• linger
• decelerate

News & Articles

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• Chief Keef avoids arrest, but buddy busted for speeding on Edens Expy.
  After a spate of run-ins with the law, including a May 28 charge of driving more than 100 mph on the Edens Expy., Chicago rapper Chief Keef did not get busted early Tuesday. His buddy did. Will R. Carthan, 19, of Chicago, was charged with speeding near where the rapper, whose real name is Keith F. Cozart, of Northbrook, was stopped for speeding charge two weeks ago. This time, Cozart was simply ...
  June 12, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
• Police: Man, 20, killed after speeding, crashing into semitruck
  A 20-year-old man was killed after he crashed into a semitruck early Saturday morning. Police said Kevin Cruz was driving a 2007 Ford Fusion on eastbound Interstate 10 near the Clint exit on mile marker 42 when he tried to switch lanes while speeding. A witness told police that the Fusion crashed into the back of an 18-wheeler. Police said no charges are pending, and speed was a factor in this ...
  June 11, 2013 - KFOX 14 El Paso
• City officials address speeding and other problems
  Neighborhoods near Santa Maria’s Pioneer Valley High School will see more police patrolling the streets as well as crackdowns on speeding and student-related problems like petty theft and loitering under a new action plan by city officials.
  June 11, 2013 - Santa Maria Times

Quotes

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• Al Gore in Reuters
  I will be doing everything I can to try to understand how to best use the honor and recognition of this award as a way of speeding up the change in awareness and the change in urgency,Gore said.
• Adrian Peterson in ABC News
  Peterson told The Associated Press on Thursday that he "got a little speeding ticket. I need to be more aware of the speed I was going and not let it happen again."
• Lou Piniella in Chicago Tribune
  I don't think it's needed at all,Cubs manager Lou Piniella told reporters in Toronto, where the Cubs were playing the Blue Jays. "How many times do you see players make errors? Baseball has talked about speeding up the game. It's all you...