rapidity
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The rapidity of these attacks - and the regularity of them, disrupted or acted out, had an extraordinary consequence that further complicated the picture.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025
In this franchise, the rapidity of change runs parallel to the infestation of anger.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025
"Its simplicity and rapidity make it particularly well-suited for studying metabolic changes."
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Meditation suggests it might be possible, but the rapidity with which our internal terrain changes makes the possibility of any definitive guide all but impossible.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
The word ‘limes’ was like fire to powder, his yellow face flushed, and he rapped on his desk with an energy which made Jenny skip to her seat with unusual rapidity.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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 Thomas Carlyle
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 Henry James
Different kinds of apples brown with different rapidities, and the browning always begins at the core.
From Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
I merely look on at the rapidities of change with unalloyed interest.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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