rapidity

Example Sentences

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From her perch below the stage she rattled off numbers with a sing-song rapidity: "Can I get one one one one two thousand money ware?"

From Salon

As someone who grew up with a corded phone in her kitchen, the rapidity from which we went from beepers to cordless to cellphones leaves me breathless.

From Washington Post

The researchers believe the rapidity of those pulses produced the atmospheric changes in the nick of time to create a column of hot air that favors electric discharge.

From Washington Post

Indeed, that same rapidity is repeating itself with the floods.

From Los Angeles Times

In the 21st century, the instability and rapidity of escalating technology and social relationships allows the possibility of cataclysmic shifts at an unprecedented scale.

From Salon