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speed
noun as in rate of motion, often a high rate
Strong matches
activity, alacrity, breeze, briskness, celerity, clip, dispatch, eagerness, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, headway, hurry, hustle, legerity, lick, liveliness, precipitancy, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, rush, rustle, snap, steam, swiftness, urgency
Example Sentences
This speed is essential, as many marine species face extinction due to human-driven biodiversity loss before scientists even learn they exist.
Their vast arsenal, much of which is supplied by Iran, includes drones, cruise missiles, sea mines and speed boats.
In Haaland, they have someone destroying defences with power, speed and clinical finishing.
A train car moving at high speed with the doors and windows closed is a violent psychopath’s dream—a veritable barrel full of unarmed, unsuspecting fish.
Physicists describe a car traveling straight at constant speed with a simple spacetime diagram: position on one axis, time on the other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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