rapid

His attempt at rapid industrialisation, which he called the Great Leap Forward, led to a famine that killed tens of millions.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

This unusually rapid growth may offer clues to how some black holes became extraordinarily massive during the relatively short time available in the early universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

That rapid improvement meant it was ready for a more grueling test of mathematical knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

That index of popular hedge-fund trades dropped 4.2%, usually an indication of rapid de-leveraging or trade liquidations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The car moved through the darkness at a rapid speed, turned left at the Sanctified Church of the Crucified Jesus, and took the Biddle Creek Road which followed the river toward the training depot.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Falling from the summit of St. Peter's, it strikes the earth at the rate of 300 miles an hour, or five times quicker than the rapidest express train.

From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth

When she and Raoul had talked together in rapidest French, Ursule like an old queen waved them graciously within.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

She built in those piles of baggage with the rapidest symmetrical arrangement, to the admiration of Smith, who stood wondering by, and did what he could to help her, with troubled good-nature.

From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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