alacrity

Example Sentences

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What is helping them meet these deadlines is the industry's alacrity in embracing generative AI.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Some have bristled at the alacrity with which Solis has appeared to consolidate support.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 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

He has accomplished great things in his time as president, and the First Lady and Secretary Becerra both spoke within the last week about his efforts which have come with great alacrity.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2023

It lightened the heart, though we were too rundown to be able to show our relief in alacrity or zest of movement.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin