acceleration
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Scientists have also observed its ice flowing increasingly quickly, but traditional computer models have struggled to reproduce the acceleration detected by satellites.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Owen in those days, even after his initial hamstring struggles, was explosive, electric - searing pace and acceleration complemented by the most ruthless of finishes.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
With such rapid acceleration of spending, and the ultimate aim of 23 gigawatts of what Johnsen called “nameplate compute,” Sen said he expected SpaceX’s annual capital spending to reach $200 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
After several difficult years marked by near-stagnant revenue, eBay returned to growth in 2025 and saw an acceleration in the first half of this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Before Newton, generations of physicists had thought about phenomena such as force, acceleration, mass, and velocity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Similar surveys pointed to accelerations in India and Japan, though private sector growth lost momentum in Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
On a Thursday morning in June for example, the car had been driven 7.33 miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Despite the system's complexity, the team found that snowflake accelerations follow an exponential frequency distribution with an exponent of three halves.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
In a statement, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis said the increase reflects "accelerations in consumer spending, private inventory investment, and federal government spending" among other factors.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023
We are comfortable with accelerations of 1 g; we have grown up with 1 g.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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