in short order
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"And I think it'll be done in short order."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
This is the stuff that usually ends in short order with a resignation, either of the member’s own volition or at the speaker’s insistence.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
Every decade or economic cycle, or so it seems, brings another prognostication, each of which ends up cycling from scary to silly in short order.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The coach who’d spent the previous two years at Ole Miss as Kiffin’s defensive coordinator also needed to get to know half his team in short order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
They’d get to the music in short order, Gloria reassured them.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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