rapidly
within a short period of time:There are thousands of languages spoken in the world today, but many of them are rapidly approaching obsolescence and extinction.
with great speed; swiftly: Bats are more likely than birds to detect rapidly spinning turbine blades and avoid flying into them.
Origin of rapidly
1Other words from rapidly
- ul·tra·rap·id·ly, adverb
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How to use rapidly in a sentence
It’s a nice first step toward demonstrating that humans seem to be driving the very rapid evolution of camouflage in this species.
These plants seem like they’re trying to hide from people | Jonathan Lambert | November 20, 2020 | Science NewsMaryland health officials also say they are ramping up on-site visits and doubling the number of employees dispatched to nursing homes as “rapid response teams.”
Maryland and Virginia nursing homes battle explosive covid-19 outbreaks — again | Rebecca Tan, Rachel Chason | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostHe would’ve gone, too, had his mother not worried over his ability to adjust to such a rapid change, pushing him to take on two more years of high school.
Meet the unicorn founder that braved war zones and missed meetings to make his mark on the startup world | Lucinda Shen | November 20, 2020 | FortuneThis could help determine if diet, temperature or some other environmental condition on the two islands, rather than rapid evolution, could be behind the toads’ diminutive size.
Guttural toads shrank by a third after just 100 years on two islands | Jake Buehler | November 19, 2020 | Science NewsWorkers are trained to administer rapid coronavirus tests if anyone shows symptoms of coronavirus infection during the school day.
After 8 months, D.C. Public Schools reopens buildings for more than 400 students | Perry Stein | November 18, 2020 | Washington Post
This suggests that the pilots were overtaken very rapidly by an emergency.
The Newsroom is over, newsrooms as we traditionally understand them are rapidly declining, and New Media is here to stay.
A Few Great Men Too Many: Aaron Sorkin Doesn’t Think You Can Handle the Truth | Arthur Chu | December 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKendrick rapidly chants these last lines in repetition with Bilal and Anna Wise sing-shouting behind him, like a rallying cry.
Kendrick Lamar Shuts Down ‘The Colbert Report’ with Untitled Track | Charlise Ferguson | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNearly 85 percent of its population are expats drawn to work in the rapidly growing tax-havens.
Middle East Murder Mystery: Who Killed an American Teacher in Abu Dhabi? | Chris Allbritton | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Jeff, who began his foray into pot gastronomy as a hobby, is rapidly turning it into a full-time pot-repreneurial business.
Within the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.
Among the Sioux | R. J. CreswellMrs. Jolly Robin had often wished—when she was trying to feed a rapidly-growing family—that she could hunt forp.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyPiedmont alone vies with her, and is improving far more rapidly, but Lombardy has great natural capacities peculiarly her own.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyDecomposition sets in rapidly, especially in warm weather, and greatly interferes with all the examinations.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddDo this five times—each time from memory and more rapidly than before.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
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