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- adjective
fast ,rapid ,speedy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"In the last two events we've been as 'pacey' as anyone, so now we just need to turn that into results.
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"In the last two events we've been as 'pacey' as anyone, so now we just need to turn that into results.
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Stewart's tempestuous drama does not sugarcoat the failings of her characters and Graham McLaren's pacey production pulls no punches.
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My work is so pacey, constantly moving, talking, deciding, trying to come up with ideas so I like to decompress and to have that time to be slow and not have any agenda.
Alannah Weston Retreats to the Countryside Javier Espinoza 2012
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Wenger needs to generate momentum and he must do so in a finely balanced Champions League play-off against pacey and threatening Serie A opponents and in hot and clammy conditions.
Arsène Wenger left with no margin for error in Udinese tie 2011
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I think boys like pacey stories, yes, they do like pace, but they don't like simple, they don't like to be able to get to the ending too easily.
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The writing does, however, make for a pacey if remorseless read, and the book has mu ch to teach about a time and a people long shrouded in legend much, apparently, deserved.
Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011
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Some great descriptive passages here and full of pacey action.
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Her journey to an implausibly remote and impenetrable part of Wales, presided over by a strange and dangerous cult, is pacey and exhilarating enough, if a tad formulaic.
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One ripping yarn wrapped around him was Robert Harris's The Ghost, a pacey thriller in which all manner of twists reveal the many mysteries of power.
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