as in velocity
a high rate of movement or performance
the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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Recent Examples of rapidity
But this doesn’t explain the rapidity of the shift nor the fact that all the leading American AI research labs moved in the same direction.
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Nick Srnicek,
Wired News,
14 Jan. 2026
Still others warned of the rapidity with which democracy could give way to dictatorship.
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Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
The film captures the rapidity of time, with flashes of beauty and brutality whipping by in turn.
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Anastasia Sanger,
Glamour,
22 Dec. 2025
The first is the rapidity of innovation.
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Ravi Kumar S,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2025
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Nick Srnicek,
Wired News,
14 Jan. 2026
Still others warned of the rapidity with which democracy could give way to dictatorship.
—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
The film captures the rapidity of time, with flashes of beauty and brutality whipping by in turn.
—
Anastasia Sanger,
Glamour,
22 Dec. 2025
The first is the rapidity of innovation.
—
Ravi Kumar S,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapidity
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Your sentences have great velocity.
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The asteroid could, for example, be a contact binary, according to Michel, in which two separate bodies came together at low velocities.
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The Beltline allows only Class 1 or 2 e-bikes and speeds of only up to 15 mph.
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Pfendler appears to have broken both the previous women's speed record as well as the men's speed record, according to records maintained by Ocean Rowing Society International, which adjudicates ocean-rowing achievements for Guinness World Records.
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“Rapidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapidity. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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