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rapidly

[ rap-id-lee ]

adverb

  1. 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.

  2. with great speed; swiftly:

    Bats are more likely than birds to detect rapidly spinning turbine blades and avoid flying into them.



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  • ܱ·ٰ··· adverb
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For Putman, who used to study rattlesnakes, fence lizards are a model for how animals handle rapidly changing environments.

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As climate change continues to rapidly warm Arctic regions, it is possible that the jet stream will become weaker and distort more often leading to more of these 'blocked' patterns.

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No ice shelf setting is the same, but the researchers say their findings from the former British-Irish ice sheet could help understand how Antarctica might respond to today's rapidly warming climate.

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Seeing firsthand how gentrification and rapidly rising housing costs have started to negatively affect the mostly blue-collar town, Bernthal set out to give back.

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Local law enforcement officials and policymakers say they have been watching the issue closely and working to update permit policies, but it has not been easy given the rapidly shifting legal landscape.

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