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accelerate

[ak-sel-uh-rayt] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪt /


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These included techniques that use ultrasound or microwaves to accelerate oil recovery.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

China’s main objectives are to accelerate its technological development, reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and achieve leadership in strategically important fields, including artificial intelligence, Hannas said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

In September, the Securities and Exchange Commission created a path for trading venues to offer tokenized stocks in the U.S., prompting both traditional and crypto-native exchanges to accelerate plans to develop the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

The government is also setting up a new national agency next year - More Homes Scotland - which hopes to "remove barriers and accelerate housing delivery".

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Australian airline Qantas said Tuesday it will cut 850 jobs as it shifts some corporate functions to India and accelerates the use of artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

For the Bank of Japan, the key lies in whether wage growth momentum accelerates further, and if it continues and spreads across the economy, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

As AI use accelerates, construction of power-hungry data centres is booming worldwide, especially in Asia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Slowing wage growth even as inflation accelerates is a sign that workers are having a hard time moving up to better-paying jobs, even if outright unemployment is low,” Adams of Fifth Third said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

The engine roars and pops; the truck rarely accelerates past walking speed.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The electric field accelerated the electrons and caused some of them to switch from one energy band to another, crossing the intervening gap through a quantum mechanical transition.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

The company is also expanding its footprint in the defense sector, hoping to capitalize on the escalating geopolitical tensions that have accelerated defense spending worldwide and boosted the fortunes of its KC-390 transport aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

The report said that, while these companies were growing around 8% per year on average before the advent of ChatGPT, the pace has since accelerated to 12%.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

She said adoption accelerated over the past two years as government subsidies, improving vehicle quality and falling operating costs combined to make ownership more attractive.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

I noted that when my footsteps slowed, his slowed; when mine accelerated, his matched them.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Although the trial did not establish whether the program prevents osteoarthritis over the long term, it demonstrated that supervised exercise can improve knee health without accelerating the cartilage damage or early osteoarthritis researchers were monitoring.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

However, Wood and his quant colleague Desh Peramunetilleke observe a “dissonance” between the accelerating returns and the declining investment.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

One venture capitalist told AFP that the fallout from Huang's infidelities was accelerating a correction that had already been underway.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Between July and September, the economy expanded by 0.7%, accelerating from the three months previously, official figures show.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

For Lawrence, the stepwise acceleration of particles by multiple small impulses “immediately impressed me as the real answer which I had been looking for to the technical problem of accelerating positive ions.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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