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celerity

[suh-ler-i-tee] / səˈlɛr ɪ ti /


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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 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

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

I wish to hear with all celerity of their location and the manner in which Your Lordship proposes to assure their safety.

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