as in speed
a high rate of movement or performance
his agility and overall quickness made him the football coach's top choice for receiver
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Recent Examples of quickness
The 6-foot-2 McDonald blends size, quickness and an excellent feel of the game.
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Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
At 6-3, 330 pounds, Washington has climbed up draft boards with his combination of power, quickness and explosiveness.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
Then nickels, where foot quickness, toughness and smarts are paramount.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2025
The team has been lit up by quick guards such as Milwaukee’s Ryan Rollins, Indiana’s Quenton Jackson and New Orleans’ Jeremiah Fears, and Melton’s skillset and quickness should help alleviate that.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
Even with those pieces in place, Collins’ unique blend of one-on-one quickness and interior pressure will be hard to replace.
—Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Hanson saw potential in both of them, and Kaylon, especially, had quickness and power that surpassed his size.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
The two-time team captain is a read-and-react player with excellent instincts, quickness and is disruptive against the run.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
But the quickness is a necessity.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quickness
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
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Tapascott said speed alone no longer excites drivers.—
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Depending on the configuration and the mass-ratio, the spacecraft could go even faster, with some estimates placing its top velocity at 5% the speed of light.—
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This means that there is a way of stretching the velocity curve in one frame to match the steeper velocity curve in a later frame.—
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“Quickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quickness. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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