rapid
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Companies ordered billions of dollars worth of car carriers between 2022 and 2025 as consumer spending on vehicles surged and Chinese exports started their rapid rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Regarding his military options, US media report that Trump must contend with rapid depletion of stocks of certain missiles and drones.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
What’s driving the rapid shift as South Korea’s bear market turns back into a bull.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
There's been a rapid increase, especially in the number of children accessing the scheme.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
In rapid succession he had been defeated for homeroom president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, sergeant at arms, homeroom representative to the Student Council, and homeroom alternate.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
In the shallow streamlet of her lowly life the waters might have glided on, slow but smoothly, had he not taught them to be ambitious of a rapider, grander course.
From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
To overwrought nerves as were hers, the announcement was rapider in its effect than a microbe.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
That sort of thing came to the Roman Empire slowly, in the course of lifetimes, but nowadays we lived in a rapider world—with flimsier institutions.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022
It was the rapidest and most dastardly flight you could possibly conceive; but it was a great compliment to the argumentative powers of the Parson, and he felt it as such.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
They had passed the Azores, that lovely May morning, and were headed for Cape St. Vincent,—the good old Lorelei lounging along at her easiest gait, the which is also her rapidest.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
She would allow nothing but the simplest and rapidest methods; and Marie had been secretly alarmed lest her hand should lose her cunning.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
In rapidest swing the original main motives now sing a joint verse in a kind of reprise, with the wild shriek at the end of the line, to a final crashing height.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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