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It marked a rapid advance for Anderson, who was named U.S. chief operating officer in April after serving in a global business role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

While at City, rapid forward Fletcher, an England Under-17s international, helped the club reach the FA Youth Cup final in 2024 and 2025 before impressing at Ipswich, scoring six times in the Premier League 2.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Texas churches also spoke out against inequality during the Gilded Age — a late 19th-century period of rapid industrial growth that produced extreme wealth inequality, Locke said.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Greece's geography, with its hundreds of islands, complicates the rapid deployment of emergency responders.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

“Were you reading the book or writing a book?” he grumbled, but before I could say something back, he pulled out a notebook and started asking questions rapid fire.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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 Trollope, Anthony

“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022

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 Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

One of the rapidest and most furious Sieges anywhere on record.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

It was the rapidest and most dastardly flight you could possibly conceive; but it was a great compliment to the argumentative powers of the Parson, and he felt it as such.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various