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quick-fire

ADJECTIVE
speedy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
accelerated brisk expeditious hasty hurried immediate prompt rapid swift
WEAK
agile alacritous breakneck express fleet harefooted headlong lissome lively nimble precipitate rapid-fire ready snappy split-second summary supersonic ultrasonic winged
Antonyms
STRONGEST
delayed leisurely slow sluggish
WEAK
halted slowed tardy

Example Sentences

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I played their game like ping pong, returning their quick-fire questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

Wieke Kaptein opened the scoring in the 13th minute before a quick-fire Catarina Macario double, including a 53rd penalty.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

I was scared about whether, even with my hearing aids, I would be able to keep up with the quick-fire exchanges that fill my classroom as I engage law students in the Socratic method.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024

Sarah Storey and Ben Sandilands won quick-fire gold medals on Friday morning to take Great Britain’s tally to 38 golds at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2024

He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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