rapid
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Blogs and entire media networks shuttered in rapid succession.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
A process known as the Hills mechanism may provide an explanation for both the rapid rotation and the star's unusually tight orbit.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The rapid rise of Chinese AI models has sparked a host of questions in both Silicon Valley and Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Wolfe Research identified seven stocks combining strong earnings, rapid sales growth, and positive momentum in a tough market.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Her shock lasted seconds, forced out of her by rapid, heavy footfalls approaching.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
One of the rapidest and most furious Sieges anywhere on record.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
And is by nature the rapidest soul now alive.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
She would allow nothing but the simplest and rapidest methods; and Marie had been secretly alarmed lest her hand should lose her cunning.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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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