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accelerate

[ak-sel-uh-reyt] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪt /


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The firm expects that operating the portfolio as a standalone business will allow it to accelerate the brands’ growth, boost innovation and improve their market positions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

By plugging custom chips and XPUs into Nvidia’s established rack-scale ecosystem, MediaTek can accelerate deployment in AI factories and data centers without building a systems platform from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

And, he warns, it won’t just be 18 basis points each year — because absorption costs are convex, this depletion will accelerate if debt continues to outpace financial capacity.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

That unpredictability has made night-time operations impossible in many areas, despite pressure to accelerate the search.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

We finally taxied out to the runway and the pilot said, Flight attendants, prepare for departure, and then two tremendous jet engines roared to life and we began to accelerate.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

As Falcon Heavy accelerates through Earth's atmosphere, Roman will experience powerful sound waves, aerodynamic pressure, and significant heating.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

But the prospect also carries environmental risks if increased traffic accelerates Arctic melting, with soot emissions that settle on the ice cap trapping heat from sunlight.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 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

For Saturn as for Jupiter, the magnetic field captures and accelerates the charged particles of the solar wind.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Surging growth in electricity demand historically has accelerated the deployment of clean electricity-generation technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Discussions on how to stave off automatic benefit cuts accelerated this summer, but concrete action remains elusive.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

For one, growth in nominal gross domestic product has accelerated through the second quarter, reaching about 6.6% year over year, while real growth has fallen to just 2.1% year over year.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

The driver hit the gas and the tires squealed as the truck made a sharp turn and then accelerated right through a bombed-out warehouse onto a parallel alley.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

In August it slowed back to 2.4 percent after accelerating slightly to 2.5 in July.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

Continuous advancements in physical artificial intelligence are accelerating the development of humanoid robots, the U.S. bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Ultimately, the rise in yields appears to be driven by accelerating nominal U.S. growth, increasingly fueled by higher prices, and a global environment that puts upward pressure on bond yields.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 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

Colonel Meecham watched as an F-8 lifted off an unseen airway, cleared the treeline, thundered eastward, accelerating and rising in a clean parabola.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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