in record time

idiom

: in the least amount of time ever
He finished in record time.

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Operation Warp Speed and the development of a safe and (somewhat) effective Covid vaccine in record time. Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 Promising brighter, more even skin in record time. Essence, 9 Oct. 2025 Similar to the Airwrap, this device doesn’t use harmful levels of heat to take your hair from wet to dry in record time. Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 Those settlers managed to make an underground river with murderous maggots on unstable terrain into a tourist attraction in record time. Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in record time

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“In record time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20record%20time. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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