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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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As England hit the accelerator, India became ragged - Shivam Dube had an awful time in the field.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Tesla executives disputed Butler’s account, saying on social media the car’s driver pressed the accelerator pedal down and kept it pressed even after the crash.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Tesla’s vice president of AI and software Ashok Elluswamy wrote in a post on X that the driver had manually pressed the accelerator pedal down.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, said on X that the driver had manually overridden the system by “by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

If other rhetoric teachers were driving instructors, Aristotle was a mechanic: he didn’t just want to know where the accelerator was—he wanted to understand what went on under the hood.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

However, the authors emphasize that being beyond the reach of current particle accelerators does not make the theory impossible to test.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

He noted the company’s products lines — including CPUs for agentic artificial intelligence, AI accelerators, custom-chip engagements and connectivity chips.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

SK Hynix, a key supplier of high-bandwidth-memory products used in Nvidia’s AI accelerators, in April posted a fivefold jump in quarterly net profit on surging demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Morgan expects financing for data-center infrastructure to stabilize around 2028, financing for chips and custom AI accelerators will continue to surge into 2030.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

On the contrary, there is an extremely wide range of experience—with nuclear accelerators and atomic clocks, for example—in precise quantitative agreement with special relativity.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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