alacrity
Example Sentences
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The energy crisis "certainly gives everyone another reason why they should act with alacrity", the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
What is helping them meet these deadlines is the industry's alacrity in embracing generative AI.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
If you’re planning to travel with children and parents this holiday season, may the grace of whatever god you believe in descend upon you with alacrity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
So the federal government went to work pursuing ELF members with alacrity, heaping sentence-lengthening terrorism enhancements on members to the point that, by 2006, the group basically ceased to exist.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
The knight scrambled up, edging away with such alacrity that some of the watchers laughed aloud.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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