as in impulsive
acting or done with excessive or careless speed
that was too rash a move, for now I've lost my bishop and probably the whole chess game
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Recent Examples of rash
Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Lone star ticks: Found in the eastern, southeastern, and south-central U.S., lone star ticks can sometimes cause a circular rash.
—Laura Schober, Health, 9 July 2025
The View From The Lane, New York Times, 18 June 2025
People are annoyed with each other, which creates needless disputes, rash actions and hastiness.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
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Adjective
By 2024, the rash of injuries started as LeMahieu began the season with a foot contusion that cost him 55 games and then missed the final 22 games with hip impingement, keeping
The Yankees played 40 postseason games while LeMahieu was on the team.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Lone star ticks: Found in the eastern, southeastern, and south-central U.S., lone star ticks can sometimes cause a circular rash.
—Laura Schober, Health, 9 July 2025
Noun
But when that isn’t the case, there are sloppy mistakes and rash decisions.
—The View From The Lane, New York Times, 18 June 2025
People are annoyed with each other, which creates needless disputes, rash actions and hastiness.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rash
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
Noun
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This is in addition to the broader advice given the plague of text message attacks now targeting American citizens.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The sylvatic plague is the same bacterium that causes bubonic and pneumonic plague in humans.—
Catherine Reagor,
AZCentral.com,
9 July 2025
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
Noun
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Given increasing workplace and social isolation, America’s loneliness epidemic is unsurprising, especially for low earners.—
Nathan Meyers,
The Conversation,
11 July 2025
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Such decrees were also issued during the flu epidemic in the early part of the 20th century.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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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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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
Noun
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Indicating just how much hasn’t changed in the interim, women’s wrestling segments are often the first to get cut, a spate of female performers have been let go from their contracts in regular layoffs, and despite the additional women’s championships, these titles aren’t regularly defended.—
Scarlett Harris,
Time,
12 July 2025
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Its seventh-generation foldables make the biggest leap yet, responding to a new spate of thinner foldables from Google, Oppo, and others.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 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
Noun
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Search and Rescue is a volunteer on-the-ground team that uses drones, K-9 units, rafts, and more to comb large areas in the aftermath of natural disasters.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
7 July 2025
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Brown provided the raft for the group’s protest and followed along in a van, while another vehicle trailed with emergency lights flashing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 July 2025
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“Rash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rash. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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