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
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
"Its simplicity and rapidity make it particularly well-suited for studying metabolic changes."
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Others, evidently, showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants, but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country, if not halted, might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I merely look on at the rapidities of change with unalloyed interest.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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
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
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