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"This support addresses the most significant current gap in Ukraine's air defence system. The impact is expected to be rapid and tangible," a source said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Going back to the movie theme, Wakefield's resurrection over the past three seasons is almost too fanciful for Hollywood's scriptwriters, given the rapid ascent.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

They proposed that several factors could help stabilize the structure, including small amounts of carbon and other elements, the rapid cooling of molten material created during an impact, and protection from the surrounding glassy matrix.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

European leaders agreed Friday to a rapid release of some diesel stockpiles, pulling prices of oil down by more than 4% Friday, following pressure from the Trump administration.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

I clutch at the wall, the room spinning as a rapid response team pushes a crash cart past me.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

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

Did you ever notice that when things are going at the very rapidest rate possible, they seem to be standing perfectly still?

From Dreamland by Julie Mathilde Lippmann

What an audience—the rapidest, subtlest, wittiest, down to the very cobblers and tinkers, the world has ever seen. 

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley