as in quickly
with great speed
he speedily finished the yard work and left to play ball
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Recent Examples of speedily
Worden tells me in an interview that Harvard scholar Robin Wordsworth, his co-author on a recent Red Planet study and one of the top American experts on terraforming Mars, is now designing compact astronaut outposts that can be positioned inside lava tubes and speedily inhabited.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Cheap cameras boomed in the 1960s, when the Polaroid Instamatic began producing color prints speedily.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Cheap cameras boomed in the 1960s, when the Polaroid Instamatic began producing color prints speedily.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speedily
Adverb
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These data centers will require plenty of energy, and, to that end, an agreement will be signed between the two governments enabling companies to build new nuclear power stations in both countries more quickly.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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And thanks to people like Vanessa Williams, and Silvio Horta, the creator, I was put front and center on that show kind of quickly.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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In the end, the 77th Annual Emmy Awards served as both a nostalgic tribute to television’s rich past and a clear testament to its rapidly evolving future.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The decades-long strategy of cramming more transistors into the same chip area is rapidly approaching its practical limits, and conventional methods may no longer deliver consistent performance gains.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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My clients view liquidity as the ability to access funds swiftly and seamlessly, without compromising the integrity of their long-term investment strategy.—
Matthew Fleming,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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Back in 2014, it was rumored that Venice would soon begin charging tourists a hefty $620 fine for dragging their suitcases through the Italian city’s historic alleys and city squares; however, city officials swiftly denied that such a law would be enacted.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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If anything, Iger would have made the decision to pull Kimmel even faster without Carr wading in and giving it the appearance of a political drug deal.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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The fastest-growing demographic worldwide is people over 100, but longevity without health is merely a burden.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The only players to reach the mark quicker than the 2024 NFL MVP are Patrick Mahomes (84 games), Dan Marino (89), Aaron Rodgers (99) and Peyton Manning and Brett Favre (106).—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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This additional layer of lateral thinking is almost never prudent, and usually serves to kill both guardians quicker (and instill a killer headache).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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While the container comes with a month's worth of capsules, many reviewers noticed results way sooner.—
Gabriela Izquierdo,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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Hannan, as a member of the Conservative Party, is not planning to defect any time soon.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Erik's lifelong friend Anna Dergan was the first to become suspicious that Erik was being taken advantage of – and then promptly kicked off an investigation of her own.—
ForbesTV,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Borregales has missed four kicks, while Romo promptly nailed six kicks Sunday, including 5-for-5 on field goal attempts for the Atlanta Falcons.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Speedily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedily. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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