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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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Sameera Fazili is a senior fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

“Your ability to interact with other people and have high EQ will matter increasingly,” said Keith Camhi, managing director of the Techstars Healthcare Accelerator in Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Broadcom said it would deliver technology-supporting Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips, or MTIA, which will serve as the foundation of Meta’s AI data centers, through 2029.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

The Accelerator Fund, a privately backed nonprofit, is hoping to ease some of those concerns by providing short-term, low-cost loans to developers in order to cover those higher-than-usual early costs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Without fanfare, work on the Bevatron was halted and ramped up instead on the Materials Testing Accelerator, or MTA, as the new machine was inelegantly dubbed.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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