rapidity
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In this franchise, the rapidity of change runs parallel to the infestation of anger.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025
Every year I turn another year older, I become more and more aware of time, of the rapidity of life and of all the things I want to do before it’s all over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
The rapidity of space exploration is now “outpacing our laws”, he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2024
"Its simplicity and rapidity make it particularly well-suited for studying metabolic changes."
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Then new shoots began to be put forth and grew with abnormal rapidity, giving a weeping appearance to the trees.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h.
From Time Magazine Archive
Loudon returned thither from Vienna April 7th; but is not to command in chief, this Year,—Schweidnitz still sticking in some people's throats: "Dangerous; a man with such rash practices, rapidities and Pandour tendencies!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
He hadn't even to dot his i's beyond the remark that on the very face of it, she would remember, their wonderful system attached no premium to rapidities of transition.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry
Between these numbers are those of different rapidities, which affect the eye—as orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, in an almost infinite number of shades—according to the sensitiveness of the eye.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White
I merely look on at the rapidities of change with unalloyed interest.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
