rushing

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We're always rushing, rushing, rushing, and worrying about how other people perceive us.

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  1. A refreshment. Halliwell. [Provincial English]
  2. A rush. All down the valley that night there was a rushing as of a smooth and steady wind descending towards the plain. R. L. Stevenson, Will o' the Mill.

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  1. Compare rush, 10.
  2. Verbal noun of rush, v.
 

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