Sweeping. A word commonly associated with cleaning up and (for older readers) Mary Poppins. However, it seems to be increasingly used in news headlines to describe something move very quickly. An example last week was that the new covid variant was 'sweeping through the UK' when the actual facts were 6 or 7 cases have been recorded. Rain is often 'sweeping across the country' as does the 'latest craze'. The dictionary reveals that sweeping can mean a movement in a curve, but also 'wide ranging' so I'm not sure how the covid variant was sweeping across the UK.
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