rapid
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Strong winds, low humidity and warm temperatures can contribute to rapid and intense fire spread, leaving residents little time to react, she noted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"This rapid, mass mobilization in the streets has a multiplier effect and can undoubtedly bring out voters," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The strategy may therefore help overcome the rapid clearance that has limited macrophage therapies, including approaches evaluated in recent clinical trials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
But his rapid ascent means gilded surroundings might not be far away for Europe's hottest managerial property.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Betsie’s chest was still heaving oddly after the rapid march.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
To overwrought nerves as were hers, the announcement was rapider in its effect than a microbe.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
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
He had come to Sagan "by almost the rapidest marches ever heard of,"—or ever till some others of Henri's own, which he made in that neighborhood soon.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 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
He is at home equally in the slowest, most tranquil, and most meditative of rhythms, and in the rapidest and most impulsive.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
For to-day and the States, I think the vividest, rapidest, most stupendous processes ever known, ever perform'd by man or nation, on the largest scales and in countless varieties, are now and here presented.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
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