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[swift] / swɪft /


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She added: "AI, as a technology, is constantly developing at an exceptionally swift rate. As such, the Scottish government will keep matters under continual review."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

They reply with a swift, “No, we’re staying here,” as they remain hopeful and enthused about the performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Global Reach said that it was “confident that this administration’s commitment to bringing Americans home would lead to swift action, and we are grateful it did.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Talk of "standards" may not be good news for Brydon Carse's prospects of a swift return to the set-up.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

“You’ll carry messages between the various departments and it often calls for a swift stride. You’ll be stationed in the center of the Park.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Others have raised environmental concerns over colonies of common swifts nesting in the park.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Photographer Amy Brewer said she saw birds attempting to return to nests which swifts use year after year, while Dorking Swift Conservation said an established colony could be lost.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Campaigners have said nesting swifts may have been displaced after part of a building was demolished in Dorking, after building work scheduled for autumn started during migration season.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

"This is a structure that wasn't known to exist outside of hummingbirds, but our CT scans revealed that swifts have these vocal folds in the same position," Clarke said.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

A few days later the swallows and swifts felt the change and left the Northeast.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

This will likely materialize through ramped-up bond issuance, swifter government fund deployment, and the rollout of an 800 billion yuan policy financing tool, equivalent to $117.75 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

As this technology developed, the photographs became more detailed and the animations swifter and smoother.

From Slate ● May 25, 2026

The technology allows for much swifter identification than previous surveys, which date back to the 1970s and are incomplete.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

But few players were swifter around the bases, and managers enlisted him as a pinch runner in close, late-innings games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

At first it was thunderous, and then it receded for a moment and came back again, louder and swifter.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"The freedom of the hostages unlocks new pathways, and it's the swiftest way to break the crisis in the Middle East," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025

Miguel, posted the swiftest qualifying time, a wind-aided 10.27 — the fastest time in California this year — just minutes after Bakersfield sophomore Jalen Ford won his heat in a wind-aided 10.34.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024

According to three of the commanders interviewed by The Times, the diplomatic route would be the swiftest way of returning the Israelis who remain in captivity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

The figure, comprising four broad categories, indicates activity expanding at its swiftest since January.

From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2023

It dwindled at last to a country cart-road little used; but it did not wind: it held on its own sure course and guided them by the swiftest way.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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