the rapidity with which she can do mental math calculations is amazing
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The muscles around the knee tend to shut down and shrink with startling rapidity once all that inflammation builds up around a torn ACL.—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 Amazing, how the political parties can evolve — and with such rapidity.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Feb. 2025 The difference in Rostow’s own day, however, was the rapidity with which other countries were doing the same thing.—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023 Photos, news, tips on where to evacuate, hotel discount codes and pet policies were being posted with increasing rapidity as the fires spread.—Finn-Olaf Jones, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rapidity
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borrowed from French & Latin; French rapidité, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Latin rapiditāt-, rapiditās, from rapidus "flowing violently, rapid entry 1" + -itāt-, -itās-ity
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