celerity

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Wodele added: “I think coming out of the wrestling environment and celerity, a lot of people misjudged him in terms of his intellect. He was underestimated in terms of his ability to understand and reason.”

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2021

The desert reduces its victims with barbarous celerity, and few of them are identifiable by outward appearance.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 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 is time for her and the state of West Virginia to get on with it - celerity and all.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2017

He ejected them with celerity, and his servants watched with some satisfaction as these lords of the leaf stalked back out to their chaises, disappointed in their designs.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson