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[rap-id] / ˈræp ɪd /


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She believes the rapid commercial growth of women's football has helped to obscure some of these realities.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"This suggests that what is happening on the scalp may go beyond the classical shedding seen after rapid weight loss and involve an inflammatory component," explained study author Dr. Bruno Halioua.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The job became a mismatch with her rapid rise, and while she was still booking the travel arrangements for her boss, she had a publicist who was booking hers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The rapid growth of Amazon—which is ahead of its retail rivals on automation and earlier this year surpassed Walmart to become the largest U.S. company by annual revenue—has dialed up the urgency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mohammed opened his door, the car still on, and spoke in rapid, coaxing Hausa.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To overwrought nerves as were hers, the announcement was rapider in its effect than a microbe.

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

That sort of thing came to the Roman Empire slowly, in the course of lifetimes, but nowadays we lived in a rapider world—with flimsier institutions.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the shallow streamlet of her lowly life the waters might have glided on, slow but smoothly, had he not taught them to be ambitious of a rapider, grander course.

From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope

“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

In rapidest swing the original main motives now sing a joint verse in a kind of reprise, with the wild shriek at the end of the line, to a final crashing height.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp

Majesty is forming Magazines at Neisse, Brieg, and the principal Fortresses in those parts; driving on all manner of preparations at the rapidest rate of speed, and looking with his own eyes into everything.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

When she and Raoul had talked together in rapidest French, Ursule like an old queen waved them graciously within.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

Did you ever notice that when things are going at the very rapidest rate possible, they seem to be standing perfectly still?

From Dreamland by Julie Mathilde Lippmann




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