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He oversaw the company's rapid rise through an aggressive expansion programme funded with large amounts of borrowed money.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

That rapid reversal argues against the idea that maternal age effects are primarily caused by the gradual buildup of cellular damage or DNA mutations associated with aging, as many researchers had previously suspected.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Communities across the country have grappled with the rapid spread of data centers, which house the equipment powering AI and computing systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

There is historical precedent for a rapid rise in long-end rates signaling a top for stocks, according to the X account Oddstats.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Penelope’s feelings spun in such rapid succession she could not even name them; it was like a pinwheel of emotions whirling inside her, faster and faster, until each blended into the next.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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 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

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