rapid
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The stocks of AI-related companies associated with high-volume and rapid moves in one direction generally fell sharply this month.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The analysis revealed a period of especially rapid body-shape evolution around 35 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The aircraft isn’t the only one of its kind, but its capacity, rapid refilling rate and relatively small size have made it the cornerstone of European firefighting fleets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The research analysed the impact of the end of sugar rationing in the UK which led to a rapid increase in the amount of sugar in people's diets.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
And yet she had been the first English battleship to have gunports and to mount complete batteries of siege artillery—a really key ship in the development process at a time of rapid technological change.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
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)
“The ’80s in Korea was when we had the rapidest growth ever,” says Lee.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022
In rapidest swing the original main motives now sing a joint verse in a kind of reprise, with the wild shriek at the end of the line, to a final crashing height.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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 Carlyle, Thomas
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)
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 Roth, Edward
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