in short order
Example Sentences
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"And I think it'll be done in short order."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Had he simply fought Fox’s complaint the right way, he may well have defeated the charges in short order.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026
Every decade or economic cycle, or so it seems, brings another prognostication, each of which ends up cycling from scary to silly in short order.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The brain of a self-driving car is constantly updated and refined; it will learn to coordinate seamlessly with other drivers, human and AI, in short order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
But the cock-a-doodle-dos pierced both his thick adobe walls and the cotton wadding, and in short order the shrill cries had made his exhausted brain feel all foamy, like a vanilla milkshake.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
