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Example sentences for: sped

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Wednesday, several Iraqi fighter jets zipped into the "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq, encountered U.S. and British warplanes, and sped away without firing.
The editors at Die Welt surely knew their document would be worthless if released after the Israeli document, and it's reasonable to assume they sped up their editorial process to scoop Israel's release.
Thus, the ‘knockout’ mutations were clearly beneficial because they sped up adaptation to a new phenotypic optimum by releasing hidden genetic variation, thereby providing a new substrate upon which natural selection may act.
The Web has sped up the news cycle (just as the telephone did at the turn of the century), but good reporting is still good reporting.
We sped across the desert, the futon on the roof threatening to blow off, in order to make an appointment she'd made at a ritzy hairdressing salon.