as in to jog
to go at a pace faster than a walk
he sprinted off to class so as to avoid being late
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Recent Examples of sprint
Athletes sprint around laps on skis, while carrying a rifle, pausing two to four times (depending on the event) to fire at targets nearly 55 yards away while standing and lying down.
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
Emil Riis had just put Gerhard Struber’s visitors 3-1 up before the match was stopped in the 54th minute when the squirrel first appeared — and sprinted across the pitch.
—Craig Chisnall, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a personalized therapy aimed at fixing the genetic typo at the root of his illness.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Skimo racers sprint uphill on a steep course using skins on their skis for traction.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 5 Feb. 2026
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
Emil Riis had just put Gerhard Struber’s visitors 3-1 up before the match was stopped in the 54th minute when the squirrel first appeared — and sprinted across the pitch.
—Craig Chisnall, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a personalized therapy aimed at fixing the genetic typo at the root of his illness.
—Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Skimo racers sprint uphill on a steep course using skins on their skis for traction.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprint
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Perhaps that jogs their memory?—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Some of these shows will jog your memory, others will be discoveries.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2026
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Coyotes were seen trotting across the frozen Charles River yesterday.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
3 Feb. 2026
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Mustafa said as the man trotted down the stairs, mumbling something—a prayer, a curse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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Cisco says the platform is built to support massive AI clusters running training, inference, and real-time agentic workloads while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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In September, the preliminary revision inferred that the US economy likely added about 911,000 fewer jobs than the jobs reports initially estimated for the 12-month period running from April 2024 through March 2025.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Parallel giant slalom requires speed and precision as riders race side-by-side downhill, slaloming around the gates on two separate quasi-identical courses.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Vonn had faced questions about her decision to race on a torn ACL, a devastating injury that has ended athletic seasons for scores of athletes, recently for the NBA’s Jimmy Butler, the NFL’s Micah Parsons and the WNBA’s Cameron Brink.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Darnold galloped over to Lock and interrupted the backup’s postgame interview.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The commercial begins with a Clydesdale foal greeting the morning by galloping out of their stable into the fields.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
26 Jan. 2026
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Early in my freshman year of college, a speeding car struck my twin brother, Jim, on a street near our campus.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Warren tore her other ACL at the end of her college soccer career, recovered and relocated to Salt Lake City to commit to speed skating full-time, only to need another surgery a year later to clear up issues from the previous procedure.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Sprint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprint. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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