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presto

adjective as in quickly

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And, presto, you have data that become suspicious by the standard he himself defined.

If you were a toothpaste company, you would donate tubes for all the athletes… and, presto, you were an Olympic sponsor.

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Simply zap water with electricity, and presto, you’ve got hydrogen.

A shoplifter looks at the camera and presto, police use face recognition to identify a suspect.

“We used to go for food at a little Italian place on Old Compton Street called Presto,” says Burston.

By simply saying those nine simple words we can magically claim anything for Islam, presto-chango.

And presto: polio returned—first in Nigeria then across Africa and into Asia, following an established migration pattern.

Toss a Cinderella- or Stockholm Syndrome-type victim into the mix and presto!

But these people are wholly on wires; laying their ears down, skimming away, pausing as though shot, and presto!

Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of the many names of benefactors, and, presto!

A clerk on a stool, and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching.

Then Mrs. Spider came along, and she spun some glossy silk web over the places where the seams were, and presto-chango!

Victor had much difficulty in reading the notes readily and not confounding the terms adagio, presto, and sforzando.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to presto, such as: fast, instantaneous, magic, rapidly, and suddenly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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