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A company spokesperson said Lineage was inquiring about potentially “safer” alternatives to the equipment’s rapid shutdown devices, which are designed to protect firefighters from shock but also have been linked to increased fire risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The cancellation of flights represents a new woe for Iran’s 90 million people, already beset by high inflation and the rapid depreciation of the country’s rial currency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

For those who are calling for regulation, the question is whether the slow pace of diplomacy can keep up with AI's rapid development.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Nasdaq Composite Index’s rapid rally to record highs may scare off some new investors who would prefer to wait for a pullback to start buying.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Victims of the flu often developed a secondary pneumonia caused by pneumococcus—an illness so rapid and fatal that doctors had termed it the “captain of the men of death.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

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

“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

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

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

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

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