alacrity
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The energy crisis "certainly gives everyone another reason why they should act with alacrity", the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told AFP.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
What is helping them meet these deadlines is the industry's alacrity in embracing generative AI.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
So the federal government went to work pursuing ELF members with alacrity, heaping sentence-lengthening terrorism enhancements on members to the point that, by 2006, the group basically ceased to exist.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025
They’re both walking encyclopedias of the genre, able to reel off titles of films, popular and obscure, with the alacrity of true aficionados.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
The saw gave forth a single sluggish twang that ceased with lifeless alacrity, leaving the blade in a thin clean curve between Luster’s hand and the floor.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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