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But a rapid jump in yields can signal forced selling in the market or a dysfunction that could spiral.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

That rapid response helps astronomers gather follow-up observations before fleeting events fade away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

That is due to its location in the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, where glaciers are melting at rapid speed as the planet heats.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Prisoners who were freed under the government's last early release scheme are returning to jail at a rapid rate, prison governors have told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

“But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence. Our temporary home was being swept away at an unpleasantly rapid rate.”

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

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

“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

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

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

Majesty is forming Magazines at Neisse, Brieg, and the principal Fortresses in those parts; driving on all manner of preparations at the rapidest rate of speed, and looking with his own eyes into everything.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

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