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fast-breaking

[ fast-brey-king, fahst- ]

adjective

  1. (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.


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Example Sentences

They can be called upon to tutor candidates on issues, prep them for debates and help them respond to fast-breaking news.

Once more they made for the wreck, which was by that time fast breaking up.

Our English plan of Poor Laws, which we once piqued ourselves upon as sovereign, is evidently fast breaking down.

The garrison were fast breaking down, not so much under the pressure from without as the pressure from within.

The overcast layers that had filled the night sky were fast breaking up and dissolving into nothingness.

The representatives present were glad to see that "the old martinet system was fast breaking down."

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