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
“A revision made in response to an entry’s increased attention differs only in celerity — as always, all revisions reflect evidence of use.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2020
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
It has been touted as Sjon’s masterpiece, but it lacks the compression, celerity and discipline of the previous novels — those scythes, whose language cut and gleamed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2018
All praised him for his celerity in sickening.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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