as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
the administrator's schedule left her with no time to make more than a drive-by assessment of the situation
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Recent Examples of drive-by
The arrest came in the immediate aftermath of a horrific drive-by shooting at Artis Restaurant and Lounge in River North, where Mello Buckzz was hosting the release party for her latest project, HollyHOOD The Mixtape, on Thursday (July 3).
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 July 2025
Jackson was arrested in connection with first-degree murder and drive-by shooting.
—Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 4 July 2025
Several mass shootings and drive-by shootings accounted for the violence that occurred between midnight on Thursday, July 3, and Sunday night, according to ABC 7, which tracked the violence.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
Four people were killed and 14 were injured in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's River North neighborhood July 2, police said.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 July 2025
Jackson was arrested in connection with first-degree murder and drive-by shooting.
—Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 4 July 2025
Several mass shootings and drive-by shootings accounted for the violence that occurred between midnight on Thursday, July 3, and Sunday night, according to ABC 7, which tracked the violence.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 7 July 2025
Four people were killed and 14 were injured in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's River North neighborhood July 2, police said.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drive-by
Adjective
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After a hurried recovery period in his upstate hospital, Dexter heads to New York City, where his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) has moved.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
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Here’s how Kansas and Missouri representatives and senators voted in the hurried push to pass President Trump’s massive, controversial spending bill.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Important plot points that could mean something are paid off in the most cursory fashion.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 July 2025
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But responses can take days, and even then, evaluations are often cursory, according to detainees and their families.—
Dhruv Mehrotra,
Wired News,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Although he was renowned for his looks, Alcibiades was notoriously rash and silly.—
Book Marks
June 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Those symptoms include fever, cough, rash, watery eyes, runny nose and small white spots inside the mouth and throat.—
Austin American Statesman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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Outfits that once felt aspirational quickly become irrelevant, leaving behind a cycle of impulsive purchases, lukewarm satisfaction, and the constant itch for reinvention.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
8 July 2025
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Back in 1937, Winfield James, Harry Caldwell and Jimmy Pickard — three impulsive teens from Abilene, just out of high school and trying to avoid summer jobs — paddled a small canoe some 660 miles down the Colorado from Ballinger, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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The Supreme Court knows this also, hence its hasty and premature dicta insulating members of the Federal Reserve Board from removal.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
2 July 2025
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And the hasty budget changes mean some people will get hurt.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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Alleged stabber Larry Boards is facing two counts of felony assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment for the crazed confrontation at the 82nd St.-Jackson Heights No. 7 train station at about 4:15 p.m. Friday, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Broadly, the search warrant describes the crimes as first-degree intentional homicide and reckless endangering of safety by use of a deadly weapon.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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The tragedy in Ruidoso highlights growing concerns about increasingly intense weather systems striking communities with little time to prepare for sudden surges of water.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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In one particularly raw moment, a woman studying the photographs let out a sudden shriek.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
12 July 2025
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But even countries far from Beijing are making quick shifts.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 July 2025
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The swarm — hundreds of small earthquakes hitting the same area in quick succession — started around 1:30 a.m.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin
July 9,
CBS News,
9 July 2025
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“Drive-by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drive-by. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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