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
“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 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
We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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