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speeding

[ spee-ding ]

noun

  1. the act or practice of exceeding the speed limit:

    a $50 fine for speeding.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of speeding1

1250–1300, for earlier sense “the condition of prospering”; 1905–10 for current sense; Middle English; speed, -ing 1
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The same year voters rejected the death penalty initiative, they narrowly passed a competing ballot measure, Proposition 66, aimed at speeding up California’s execution process by shortening the timeline for legal appeals.

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A driver who inhaled laughing gas and killed a woman while speeding in a Mercedes has been jailed for five years.

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He predicts the Met will lose about 1,700 officers, PCSOs and staff, but that additional funding may allow the force to reduce the losses by speeding up recruitment.

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The court heard he had been speeding at 64mph before the crash, and that social media videos discovered afterwards had exposed Spencer as having a history of "showing off" and "driving too quickly".

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California Highway Patrol officers were floored by the ‘next level monkey business’ they discovered inside a speeding Rolls-Royce Ghost in Madera County on Monday night.

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