- past tense form of accelerate.
- past participle of accelerate.
accelerated
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China’s factory-gate inflation accelerated in May as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East kept fueling higher energy and commodity costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Dadhania noted that the initial price target of $70 was based on the assumption of accelerated revenue growth throughout 2026, supported by a boost in sales driven by the World Cup.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
“It is possible to have accessible, secure, reliable and verified elections, and also an accelerated vote count.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
They recognized it all at once: Seabiscuit, under a tremendous load, having already run at world-record speed for most of the race, accelerated.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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