alacrity

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What is helping them meet these deadlines is the industry's alacrity in embracing generative AI.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Some have bristled at the alacrity with which Solis has appeared to consolidate support.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

He has accomplished great things in his time as president, and the First Lady and Secretary Becerra both spoke within the last week about his efforts which have come with great alacrity.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2023

Speed and alacrity are rewarded in the Slate News Quiz.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2023

I should perhaps have found gratifying a little more polite resistance to my observation, but he offered no feint; he denied not her favor and accepted his lot with alacrity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson