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The rise of pink slime comes amid a rapid decline of local newspapers, many of which have either shut down or suffered extensive layoffs due to economic headwinds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Plus, investing pros tell us what to make of the rapid rise in yields—and how to trade it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The condition is painless but occurs quickly — often within hours or days — and is sometimes described as an “eye stroke” that can occur after a rapid improvement in blood glucose.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

And a rapid expansion in university enrolment raised the bar for achievement, intensifying competition.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Her shock lasted seconds, forced out of her by rapid, heavy footfalls approaching.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

To overwrought nerves as were hers, the announcement was rapider in its effect than a microbe.

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

“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

For to-day and the States, I think the vividest, rapidest, most stupendous processes ever known, ever perform'd by man or nation, on the largest scales and in countless varieties, are now and here presented.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He is at home equally in the slowest, most tranquil, and most meditative of rhythms, and in the rapidest and most impulsive.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn