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Blogs and entire media networks shuttered in rapid succession.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

After taking the reins at the FHFA, Pulte has embarked on a series of rapid changes including removing directors and senior leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

With this extremely fine time resolution, the team tracked rapid changes in the material's electronic behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Evergrande was once China's leading property developer, propelled by decades of rapid urbanisation and rising living standards across the country.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Lenin, when he published State and Revolution just two months before the October 1917 revolution, genuinely believed that a communist revolution would lead to the rapid withering away of the state.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

She built in those piles of baggage with the rapidest symmetrical arrangement, to the admiration of Smith, who stood wondering by, and did what he could to help her, with troubled good-nature.

From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

And is by nature the rapidest soul now alive.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle

What an audience—the rapidest, subtlest, wittiest, down to the very cobblers and tinkers, the world has ever seen. 

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

They had passed the Azores, that lovely May morning, and were headed for Cape St. Vincent,—the good old Lorelei lounging along at her easiest gait, the which is also her rapidest.

From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller