How to Use ultrafast in a Sentence

ultrafast

adjective
  • But homes also need ultrafast Wi-Fi for laptops and phones and streaming video.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2025
  • This same idea applies when researchers attempt to image the ultrafast motion of electrons.
    Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The ultrafast robots are made using a liquid metal alloy called galinstan.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The images revealed how electron-hole pairs interact with the crystal lattice on ultrafast timescales.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The result is a camera similar to a commercial ultrafast imaging device but costing less than a tenth of the price.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For instance, ultrafast robots might replace invasive methods like a colonoscopy.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The latest iPad Pros will work on ultrafast 5G wireless networks that are still being built out.
    Michael Liedtke, ajc, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The ultrafast service, called Amazon Now, first launched in India last June.
    Anne D’innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • This would happen multiple times during an initiating laser pulse and lead to a train of ultrafast, attosecond-scale flashes of light from the gas.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
  • These ultrafast wingbeats are present in at least four major insect groups, including mosquitos, bees, beetles, and true bugs or hemipterans.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Verizon was first to launch 5G, but its ultrafast connections ride on tricky millimeter waves that don't travel far or pass through leaves and glass.
    Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2021
  • Users can also check ultrafast delivery options on Amazon’s getitfast site.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This ultrafast gender-neutral response to cuteness activates more than our reward centers.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The total number of these ultrafast unicorns has also quadrupled since 2023.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Treutelaar also has the typical tools, including ultrafast hand-to-hand snap times and pinpoint accuracy.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In cities where a single company controls the supply of ultrafast internet and overcharges for service, costs can become a problem.
    Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Access to cheap, reliable and ultrafast internet is crucial to most companies.
    Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This novel state of matter is a metallic phase in an otherwise insulating compound that can only be accessed by using ultrafast lasers.
    Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
  • The researchers placed these shards in front of a laser that fired ultrafast pulses of light at the diamonds, which subsequently shifted some of the mineral’s carbon atoms.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024
  • To track what happened next, the team fired an ultrafast pulse of high-energy (MeV) electrons at the excited molecules.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • For the last two years, phone carriers like AT&T and Verizon have boasted about ultrafast speeds.
    New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Lienau reported that ultrafast optical switches could greatly increase the amount of data transmitted per unit of time.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Even under ultrafast cycling at 5 C, the dual-shell design held more than 80% of its capacity.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The video, says Brooks, doesn't skip even as the virtual machines hosting it are transferred, over an ultrafast fiber-optic network, between servers thousands of miles apart.
    Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • Their work paves the way for a new era of ultrafast computing with applications in fields ranging from signal processing to pattern recognition and beyond.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Moreover, the short, femtosecond x-ray pulses work like a high-speed camera, helping researchers capture ultrafast processes such as the movement of electrons and atoms.
    Bykatie McCormick, science.org, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers have captured quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time in over half a century, the United States government is clearing the way for a new generation of ultrafast aircraft to take to the skies.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • The confirmation marked a new record, pushing attosecond science below what is known as the atomic unit of time, a fundamental threshold in ultrafast physics.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • For years, this ultrafast breakdown happening within just one to two femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) has been one of physics’ most stubborn blind spots.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026

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