accelerate
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“What makes it so important is not just its scale, but that it demonstrates how governments can align policy, infrastructure planning and industry engagement across borders to accelerate the transition,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Gates said profits from his investments will go to the Gates Foundation, where AI will help accelerate work in health, agriculture and education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"The blackout ultimately served, above all, to accelerate this process," Emília Encarnação of Vista Alegre explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The recurring question for the US chipmaker is whether the AI boom will continue to accelerate as the technology takes over more corners of the broader economy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The theory of relativity says that the rocket power needed to accelerate a spaceship gets greater and greater the nearer it gets to the speed of light.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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But as growth in its gas turbines and power transmission businesses accelerates, the Transformation of Industry unit is struggling to compete for capital, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Moderna’s breakthrough highlights a broader transformation, as AI accelerates the clinical development of therapies at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable a few years ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
So some analysts think interest rates may not rise this year - but there are still risks they do, especially if inflation accelerates by an unexpected amount.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
It comes as the group sees its server solutions optimized for artificial intelligence fuelling future revenue as the build-out of data centers accelerates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Nah, man,” Grace says as she accelerates through a yellow light.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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The tariffs have accelerated efforts in Brazil to diversify trade, prompting Piracicaba officials to hold talks with five large Chinese companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The analysts laid out an “an accelerated bull case” for bitcoin, driven by macro tailwinds in which institutional capital could start actively chasing the crypto asset.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
While return procedures are accelerated, the government will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to those who seek asylum or are unaccompanied minors and therefore cannot be returned, he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
At CERN, atomic nuclei can be accelerated to nearly the speed of light and smashed together.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Dear Diary, Ever since elementary school I’ve been in accelerated classes.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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They argue that the standard interpretation remains intact: a mysterious force known as dark energy is continuing to drive the universe's accelerating expansion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Lawrence eventually decided attack was the best form of defence, accelerating towards his fifth half-century in Test cricket.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
That evidence led to the conclusion that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, “dark energy” seems to permeate every square inch of space, pushing outward and accelerating the universe’s expansion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
As soon as Lord Asriel had joined them, the train began to move, gliding smoothly away from the platform and into a tunnel, accelerating briskly.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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