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rapid

B2Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ˈræpɪd/US /ˈræpɪd/
adjective

happening quickly or in a short period of time

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Mirroring the rapid growth of Amazon itself, the number of books available through the US Kindle store topped 460,000 in 2009, just two years after its launch.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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And then we'll see rapid growth year over year in the usefulness of the humanoid robots, a decrease in cost, and scaling up of production.

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