rapid
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Lineague lawyers say Altus approved replacement rapid shutdown devices that had connectors that were incompatible with the connectors for the solar panels, and Pearce used jumpers between the connectors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The rapid adoption of the Facebook parent’s AI agent app sent Meta shares soaring yesterday in their biggest one-day percentage gain in more than a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
She hears the rapid mice steps of the keys.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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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
He had come to Sagan "by almost the rapidest marches ever heard of,"—or ever till some others of Henri's own, which he made in that neighborhood soon.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
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
He is at home equally in the slowest, most tranquil, and most meditative of rhythms, and in the rapidest and most impulsive.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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