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careen

How to use careen in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for careen.

Editorial note

The word career and careen are so similar for a reason.

Examples12
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

pitching dangerously to one side

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of careen gathered in one view.

noun

pitching dangerously to one side

verb

walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

verb

move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for careen.

noun

pitching dangerously to one side

verb

walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

verb

move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

Example sentences

1

The word career and careen are so similar for a reason.

2

This implies a whole lotta friction as you careen through the atmosphere.

3

Have no considered being less snarky as you careen your way through that comment without really understanding any of it?

4

Software can't entirely save you -- a structural failure could cause one kite to careen into another, taking down a lot more kites.

5

Many Star Trek episodes careen between negative to positive deus ex machinae until the plot is finally resolved.

6

Damore is not a very good writer but he’s proficient in the Gish Gallup – if you’re not reading carefully easy easy to careen from point to point without asking how well each one is argued.

7

And this was 7 years ago. Upon landing in Atlanta, I'd regularly step into a smelly, old van--with a driver who spoke little English and zero knowledge of the city, requiring GPS entry before departing--only to careen haphazardly down the highway.

8

He is pro-MS "on average" but will careen wildly between unwarranted hyperbolic praise and unwarranted hyperbolic invective.

9

I wonder if the community will ever acknowledge how crazy they've been as they careen from one "solution" to the next at breakneck speed, all the while crowing about how much better their stuff is, even though what they consider "their stuff" can't seem to stay stable for 3 months?

10

I tend to agree with everything you've said... however...The cold-hard-reality is that if a self-driving car of any make were to careen into a school-bus full of children and burst into flames all automakers would very likely face severe restrictions going forward.

11

To me, the most interesting part of this whole Go2 discussion is the amount of brainpower being expended on keeping the language on its current path of pragmatic minimalism and not careen off into type system land akin to contemporaries like Rust, C#, Scala and Swift, while at the same evolving and modernizing it.

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It would also lead to the conclusion that the reason not much of substance is ever done about computer security in general is because there is someone or some group who earnestly wants to see the rise of action-movie-style supervillains who can walk down the street and see society unwind into chaos around them as ATMs jackpot into the street, airplanes careen out of the sky, power stations blink and surge, all the doors to prison cells fling wide open, and modern cars lock the steering while maxing out the accelerator.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use careen in a sentence?

The word career and careen are so similar for a reason.

What does careen mean?

pitching dangerously to one side

What part of speech is careen?

careen is commonly used as noun, verb.