quicken
verb (used with object)
to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten.
has quickened
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present perfectof quicken (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Global fertility rates have been in steady decline since the 1960s, and the trend has quickened in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
In California, this process has quickened in recent years, with the process now being nearly “instantaneous,” Bonilla said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
In May the economy slowed again, and now inflation has quickened faster than expected.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
The tempo of victory has quickened in recent days, and anti-junta forces now claim to control more than half of Myanmar’s territory, from lowland jungles to the foothills of the Himalayas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
The loveliness is perhaps more striking, less distinctive; with the flower-like heads have passed the old grace and the old dependence, and the undulatory walk has quickened into buoyant briskness.
From The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
