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Adverb
in short order (comparative in shorter order, superlative in shortest order)
- In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
2014 February 7, Zachary Woolfe, “For a Sage Tenor, It’s All in the Timing”, in New York Times:But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.
2023 May 31, “Open Access: On-train table manners”, in RAIL, number 984, page 63:She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order.
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