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Combined with low humidity, the dry vegetation is catching fire more easily and supported the Norte fire’s rapid spread early on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

"This rapid, mass mobilization in the streets has a multiplier effect and can undoubtedly bring out voters," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But his rapid ascent means gilded surroundings might not be far away for Europe's hottest managerial property.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Proofpoint Chief Executive Sumit Dhawan said rapid enterprise AI adoption changes how organizations must protect their data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Suddenly his eye gave a blink, as if it had met something that either dazzled or shocked its pupil; turning, he said in more rapid accents than he had hitherto used—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Falling from the summit of St. Peter's, it strikes the earth at the rate of 300 miles an hour, or five times quicker than the rapidest express train.

From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth

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

What an audience—the rapidest, subtlest, wittiest, down to the very cobblers and tinkers, the world has ever seen. 

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

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