Meaning & use
sprint
To run as fast as possible over a short distance.
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She sprinted the last hundred meters to win the race by a narrow margin.
He sprinted to catch the bus before the doors closed.
A note on using this word
In agile software teams, a sprint also means a fixed, short period of focused work, usually one to four weeks.
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