alacrity
Example Sentences
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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
The alacrity with which subprime borrowers paid off their loans was yet another strange aspect of this booming market.
From Literature
Some have bristled at the alacrity with which Solis has appeared to consolidate support.
From Los Angeles Times
They took to songwriting with alacrity, driven by an urge to create their own material at a time when there was no precedent for a band to write its own songs.
From Los Angeles Times
But the figure vanishes with the same dreamlike alacrity with which he arrives.
From Los Angeles Times
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