- present tense form of accelerate (3rd person singular).
accelerates
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A quarter-point rate hike from here would get the federal funds rate between 4% and 4.25%, what Kaplan says is in the neighborhood of the neutral rate that neither accelerates nor restricts the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The LHC accelerates protons to tremendous energies before smashing them together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
It runs for around 375 miles on a charge, accelerates from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 2.9 seconds and will sell in the U.K. at the equivalent of roughly $230,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Palantir stock is slightly higher this year even as business growth accelerates.
From Barron's
For Saturn as for Jupiter, the magnetic field captures and accelerates the charged particles of the solar wind.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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