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- adverb Alternative spelling of
posthaste . - noun A great
hurry .
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Examples
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So, If I want to eat and stay housed, I have to get through the CEM of By the Mountain Bound, and I have to finish this revision post-haste.
as they cast the net with no betraying light casacorona 2009
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By the time we arrived around 1 p.m., though, even the greens were gone — but, unlike the Seattle markets, where eggs sell out post-haste, we still could have scored a basket of pastel beauties practically custom-laid for Easter.
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At the time, I was beating myself over the sympathetics with Racing in the Rain, but I look at the cover with the empty shoes and think, "Well, I've got to read P&P&Z, because I've got to return it post-haste, but after that ..."
Archive 2010-03-01 Ulysses 2010
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Instead of even entertaining the "insane" concept of withdrawing post-haste, U.S. officials are still under the delusion that military progress is being made and that, by some unforeseen act of science or nature, Kabul under Karzai will suddenly start becoming less corrupt.
Michael Hughes: Afghanistan's Plea to the U.S.: 'Don't Do Us Any Favors' Michael Hughes 2011
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At the time, I was beating myself over the sympathetics with Racing in the Rain, but I look at the cover with the empty shoes and think, "Well, I've got to read P&P&Z, because I've got to return it post-haste, but after that ..."
Book Report: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger Ulysses 2010
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How many adult African American women will shed a tear of joy, as I did, remembering a very different world where Saturday mornings were spent fidgeting on a kitchen chair in mortal dread of the pressing comb and black hair, rather than a crowning glory, was a burden to be fried, dyed and laid to the side post-haste.
Michele Langevine Leiby: You've Got to Love This Muppet -- and Her Black Hair Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Truly, somebody needs to post this stuff on everything from billboards to buses (and perhaps even urinal cakes) and post-haste.
Jason Kitchen: When Pondering Life's Greatest Questions, Look no Further Than Yahoo! Jason Kitchen 2010
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Truly, somebody needs to post this stuff on everything from billboards to buses (and perhaps even urinal cakes) and post-haste.
Jason Kitchen: When Pondering Life's Greatest Questions, Look no Further Than Yahoo! Jason Kitchen 2010
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How many adult African American women will shed a tear of joy, as I did, remembering a very different world where Saturday mornings were spent fidgeting on a kitchen chair in mortal dread of the pressing comb and black hair, rather than a crowning glory, was a burden to be fried, dyed and laid to the side post-haste.
Michele Langevine Leiby: You've Got to Love This Muppet -- and Her Black Hair Michele Langevine Leiby 2010
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Instead of even entertaining the "insane" concept of withdrawing post-haste, U.S. officials are still under the delusion that military progress is being made and that, by some unforeseen act of science or nature, Kabul under Karzai will suddenly start becoming less corrupt.
Michael Hughes: Afghanistan's Plea to the U.S.: 'Don't Do Us Any Favors' Michael Hughes 2011
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