accelerate
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“AI-related bookings remain exceptionally robust, and we expect our revenue growth to accelerate further through the remainder of fiscal 2027,” Chief Executive Matt Murphy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“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
Artificial intelligence is helping to accelerate drug discovery.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"The blackout ultimately served, above all, to accelerate this process," Emília Encarnação of Vista Alegre explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
But she was afraid to accelerate for fear of running into a speed trap.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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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
Assuming that rate accelerates as time goes on, a nine-year-old AI computing cluster could easily be well below half its initial size because of failures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
That may suggest that credit investors are demanding more protection as debt issuance increases and capital spending accelerates, or that they are simply reassessing the credit risk associated with these increasingly capital-intensive business models.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Beyond all of these, is the questions over future European gas demand as the continent accelerates its transition to renewable energy.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The engine roars and pops; the truck rarely accelerates past walking speed.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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The accelerated rollout comes as the prime minister has been facing pressure over the early release scheme, designed to avert overcrowding in the country's prisons.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
Ukraine, meanwhile, has accelerated its own campaign of long-range strikes on Russian energy and logistics sites -- including oil refineries and retail warehouses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
At CERN, atomic nuclei can be accelerated to nearly the speed of light and smashed together.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
As we waited to pay for the gas, a big rig pulled out ahead of us, then accelerated onto the entrance ramp.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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
Shares gained as a forecast of accelerating growth helped calm rising anxiety throughout the market surrounding the viability of the artificial-intelligence trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Even amid the era’s accelerating glam rock movement, “Rocky Horror” pushed the boundaries of mainstream pop culture as an outré musical about a mad scientist with a theme song called “Sweet Transvestite.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Dark energy is the name scientists use for whatever is driving the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Huddled on the dock, they draped arms over one another’s shoulders and talked through their race plan, speaking softly but with more assurance, accelerating their advance along the rough road from boyhood to manhood.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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