celerity
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And if meat must be produced ever more quickly, surely it should also be consumed with maximum celerity?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Wodele added: “I think coming out of the wrestling environment and celerity, a lot of people misjudged him in terms of his intellect. He was underestimated in terms of his ability to understand and reason.”
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2021
Enriquez’s plots deteriorate with satisfying celerity: In “The Cart,” a curse strips an entire neighborhood of its livelihood within approximately three pages.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
The officer reacted with celerity, producing, seemingly out of nowhere, a tube that he deposited in his master’s hand.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018
“I shall have to purchase another. But first, I have some need of sheets, a bolster, a fire, and, with an even greater show of celerity, Madame, a bucket into which I may vomit broth.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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