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[rap-id] / ˈræp ɪd /


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In those years of rapid globalization, trade flows often grew at double the rate of economic output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Doctors also say that certain patients, usually older adults, postmenopausal women or people who have never exercised, are suddenly dealing with back or bone issues after experiencing rapid weight loss.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It concedes that higher oil consumption “increases all domestic consumers’ exposure to the risks of potential rapid increases in oil prices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The team suggests that this variability may come from the rapid evolution of newly created debris.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the rapid movement and shuffle of birds and vehicles and radiator grilles, the tourists did not seem to recognize their positional importance in the flow of order.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

To overwrought nerves as were hers, the announcement was rapider in its effect than a microbe.

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

That sort of thing came to the Roman Empire slowly, in the course of lifetimes, but nowadays we lived in a rapider world—with flimsier institutions.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the shallow streamlet of her lowly life the waters might have glided on, slow but smoothly, had he not taught them to be ambitious of a rapider, grander course.

From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope

“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

He had come to Sagan "by almost the rapidest marches ever heard of,"—or ever till some others of Henri's own, which he made in that neighborhood soon.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

She built in those piles of baggage with the rapidest symmetrical arrangement, to the admiration of Smith, who stood wondering by, and did what he could to help her, with troubled good-nature.

From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

And is by nature the rapidest soul now alive.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle

For to-day and the States, I think the vividest, rapidest, most stupendous processes ever known, ever perform'd by man or nation, on the largest scales and in countless varieties, are now and here presented.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman




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