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- verb Present participle of
careen .
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Examples
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She has now retired from her accounting job; this new liberation has granted her the privilege of following her artistic moods, allowing her art to flow according to its own nature, like the temperamental flooding of rivers when the skies send rain careening across a parched landscape.
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She has now retired from her accounting job; this new liberation has granted her the privilege of following her artistic moods, allowing her art to flow according to its own nature, like the temperamental flooding of rivers when the skies send rain careening across a parched landscape.
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She has now retired from her accounting job; this new liberation has granted her the privilege of following her artistic moods, allowing her art to flow according to its own nature, like the temperamental flooding of rivers when the skies send rain careening across a parched landscape.
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I’m once again careening back in my chair at ergonomically unfriendly angles whilst plugged up and charging.
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It’s what Bajoran adolescents call careening as close as they can to the rocks when they’re out ice-sailing.
ARMAGEDDON SKY L. A. GRAF 1997
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It's full of people hustling to get a quick lunch with cars and buses careening down the street.
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It's full of people hustling to get a quick lunch with cars and buses careening down the street.
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Adapting a dead legend's screenplay is not unlike trying to corral a careening, unmanned bicycle: The stakes are considerable, the path can be dodgy -- and the person giving chase can expend great energy to futile effect.
The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars Michael Cavna 2011
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Traditional mining communities disappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, blasting and increased flooding and dangers from overloaded coal trucks careening down small, windy mountain roads.
Wonk Room » ACCCE’s Joe Lucas Says Mountaintop Removal Solves ‘Lack Of Flat Space’ In Appalachia 2009
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It's full of people hustling to get a quick lunch with cars and buses careening down the street.
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