PRESTO Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

presto

adverb

Definition of presto

as in quickly

with great speed the hungry men dived into the food and, presto, it was gone

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Adverb

Yet subsequent agreements have followed a similar pattern, the officials said, with Feinberg’s private-sector hires at OSC and the newer Economic Defense Unit sidelining career officials in order to ink deals as quickly as possible.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
The relationship quickly became serious and highly visible, with the pair making public appearances and Rodgers openly discussing their life together.

— Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of quickly

Adverb

Pennsylvania State Police makes that possible quicker than most police departments.

— Josh Taylor, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Because of their small size, the little dots of pasta cooked up quicker than the standard ones, which means dinner was ready in no time.

— Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of quick

Adverb

In its premiere, this was a Korean Cherry Orchard performed in Korean for audiences that needed no primer on its setting, the rapidly changing globalized city where the characters’ home is threatening to disappear.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
These will cause glucose to flood the bloodstream quite rapidly, and then your pancreas responds by pumping out all this insulin.

— Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of rapidly

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Washington can’t stop talking about AI doom scenarios and the public backlash to data centers — but around the world, sentiment toward the fast-moving technology is much more nuanced.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Development teams are producing code faster, modernizing applications more rapidly and introducing new services at unprecedented rates.

— Evgeny Gervis, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of fast

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The looming question is whether European leaders, institutions, and citizens can pivot swiftly enough so that the bloc can use its economic heft to take responsibility for its own security.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Kovacik, who suddenly saw people running to see what happened, later drove swiftly to the source of the smoke.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of swiftly

Adverb

Their aim was to get bills out the door sooner and for the county to pay back districts that took a financial hit because of prior billing delays.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
My colleague Howard Blume recently wrote about district officials pressing ahead with a multibillion-dollar modernization and rebuilding plan, raising questions about investing in campuses that soon may be shuttered.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

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