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  • noun Plural form of speeding.

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Examples

  • And as I went downward through the miles, lo! all the æther of the world seemed to be surged with the silent prayers and speedings of those quiet multitudes.

    The Night Land 2007

  • The buttocks humping up and down, the thrashing legs, the muffled groans, the speedings up and slowing down -- can anything be sillier, as a central act governing human emotions?

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • And as I went downward through the miles, lo! all the æther of the world seemed to be surged with the silent prayers and speedings of those quiet multitudes.

    The Night Land: Chapter 5 1912

  • This article from this past summer on documents how a weather radar near Chicago picked up speedings cars, under special atmospheric circumstances.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

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