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with amazing swiftness, the airline agent got our ticket changed, and we boarded the plane just as it was about to leave
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The swiftness of Phan's arrest stood in sharp contrast to the three-week hunt for a serial bomber who terrorized the Austin area for three weeks this month, killing two people and injuring five others.
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Classical theories of crime assumed that there were three factors of punishment that deterred people from committing a crime: swiftness, certainty, and severity.
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That meeting of the party’s Central Committee was the culmination of months of secretive discussions that are only now coming to light — and show how Mr. Xi maneuvered with stealth, swiftness and guile to rewrite China’s Constitution.
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Hoping to stanch the book’s flow, state officials called emergency sessions and passed legislation with astounding swiftness.
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With unusual swiftness, Washoe County offered to settle the case for $17,500 in an effort to control litigation costs.
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All this swiftness points to a major factor contributing to the deal’s sudden adoption: Hamas’s desperation and Fatah’s weakness.
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But one month later, Trump responded to the killing of eight people in New York City — the worst Islamic terror attack on U.S. soil during his nine-month-old presidency — with a sense of swiftness and certainty.
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Follow the swiftness of the offers to know just how could Oweh could be.
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First Known Use of swiftness
before 12th century
swiftness Synonyms
Synonyms
celerity, fastness, fleetness, haste, hurry, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, velocity;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
languidness, languor, leisureliness, lethargy, torpidity, torpor;
Related Words
clip, gait, pace, rate, tempo;
acceleration, hastiness, precipitation, precipitousness, rush;
alacrity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, promptitude, promptness;
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