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Recent Examples of speed freak
Sure, the idea of more power always sounds better to confirmed speed freaks such as myself, but simply turning up the wick wouldn’t keep with the RBW ethos—and might throw that balance fully out of whack, in fact.
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Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.
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Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
The Ultima line was designed for speed freaks looking to enjoy quick getaways in comfort and style.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
16 Mar. 2023
Reeves has long been known as a speed freak with an extensive motorcycle collection.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
14 July 2022
These events are categorized into easy rider, steady eddy, and speed freak, providing spaces for all kinds of cyclists, and are central to raising funds to support Fearless Flyers.
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Alex Showerman,
Outside Online,
1 June 2021
So why not just go by Name?) moved in with a pack of fellow speed freaks and transformed the space with tinfoil and spray paint, so that in the end every surface was silver.
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Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
1 June 2020
Jeudy is a height-weight-speed freak in the mold of a Julio Jones.
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Jeremy Cluff,
azcentral,
10 Feb. 2020
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.
—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
The Ultima line was designed for speed freaks looking to enjoy quick getaways in comfort and style.
—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
16 Mar. 2023
Reeves has long been known as a speed freak with an extensive motorcycle collection.
—
K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
14 July 2022
These events are categorized into easy rider, steady eddy, and speed freak, providing spaces for all kinds of cyclists, and are central to raising funds to support Fearless Flyers.
—
Alex Showerman,
Outside Online,
1 June 2021
So why not just go by Name?) moved in with a pack of fellow speed freaks and transformed the space with tinfoil and spray paint, so that in the end every surface was silver.
—
Joan Acocella,
The New Yorker,
1 June 2020
Jeudy is a height-weight-speed freak in the mold of a Julio Jones.
—
Jeremy Cluff,
azcentral,
10 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speed freak
Noun
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Hunter Biden spent years being called a crackhead on the internet by Candace Owens.
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George Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together.
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Prediction markets, which allows users to speculate on various real-world events such as sports and even political outcomes, have been rising in popularity among investors.
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In a demonstration ahead of the product’s launch, NewsGuard COO Matt Skibinski showed how the chatbot debunked a piece of medical misinformation and guided the user to primary sources.
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The concept hit critical mass in the fitness-freak nineteen-eighties, but by the late two-thousands chains such as Pinkberry and Red Mango had inspired a craze for giant tubs of the stuff buried under sugary mountains of candy toppings.
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When Aaron Paul’s Jeff attempts to make a suspicious deposit, the bank teller (a game Nina Dobrev) demands to be in on the deal, in the sort of neo-noir twist that could suggest a rich film world populated with bizarre freaks of all stripes.
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Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
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Each of the many phishing centers answers to Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), a douchey 28-year-old rich-kid cokehead who tools around his office on a skateboard in extraordinarily ugly outfits (that puke-green suit!) and bad highlights.
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The character begins as a rock music-loving pothead who isn't too interested in what's going on with his family.
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That means there are more 24-hour potheads stumbling around the United States (in California, especially) than ever before.
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His job was to collect money owed to that gang, and, after kicking down the doors of dealers and addicts, he got caught and sent upstate.
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Lavers programs everything on a DAW like a beatmaker, or a Tetris addict, subordinating and texturizing all these offerings in the slippery swell of drums, samples, and vocals.
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Compared with protein, which lends itself to narratives of growth—more grams, more gains—fibre is a bit of a hard sell, likelier to be espoused by women in sensible shoes than by fitness junkies on Twitch.
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What has changed in recent years, however, is that prediction markets are no longer an obscure pastime enjoyed by political junkies.
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No matter what the hype, candles, sonic devices, and bracelets don’t keep mosquitoes away.
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Nothing like a little McConaughey hype speech to get the juices flowing for the 4th of July.
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“Speed freak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speed%20freak. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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