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Blogs and entire media networks shuttered in rapid succession.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

But the rapid growth of the settlement has also exposed the area's lack of basic services.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Despite the rapid consumption by Ukraine and multiyear backlogs, interceptor manufacturers have only achieved a modest boost in production so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

With this extremely fine time resolution, the team tracked rapid changes in the material's electronic behavior.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

It seemed to us, watching the moving pictures, that the doctors did a rapid, business-like job of a complicated abdominal operation.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

He is at home equally in the slowest, most tranquil, and most meditative of rhythms, and in the rapidest and most impulsive.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

They had passed the Azores, that lovely May morning, and were headed for Cape St. Vincent,—the good old Lorelei lounging along at her easiest gait, the which is also her rapidest.

From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller

It was the rapidest and most dastardly flight you could possibly conceive; but it was a great compliment to the argumentative powers of the Parson, and he felt it as such.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

One of the rapidest and most furious Sieges anywhere on record.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle