accelerate
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Benefit costs, especially health-insurance plans, will accelerate meaningfully next year, Moody said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Together, we can accelerate innovation across the grocery industry and make online grocery more seamless and affordable for the millions of households we serve," Instacart's chief executive said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Other executives in the front office believed that adding Yelich “would accelerate our rebuild,” current general manager Matt Arnold said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As deadlines for the ports’ clean-air goals are approaching, they are motivated to accelerate the transition to green vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“As everyone knows, it is more difficult to accelerate an automobile than a baby carriage,” read one passage.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Meanwhile, as AI use accelerates, the world's most populous nation has rolled out incentives to attract big tech companies, including tax cuts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
A catalyst is a substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without being permanently changed in the process, Stylianou said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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
That question matters today as AI accelerates infrastructure build-out across domestic manufacturing sectors while boosting efficiency and optimization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
My pulse accelerates to the beat of her unsteady heart rhythm and the slow chugging of her blood moving through her veins.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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U.S. 3Q GDP growth exceeded expectations, while September PCE inflation accelerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Global warming has accelerated sharply over the past decade, with Earth heating up faster than at any point since modern temperature records began in 1880.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
From the end of 2020 prosecutions under the law restarted and accelerated.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The decline came as inflation accelerated to 3.4 percent on an annualised basis in October from 3.1 percent in September, the fastest rate since January 2024, Insee said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
I had regained the gallery, and was just shutting the back-door behind me, when an accelerated hum warned me that the ladies were about to issue from their chambers.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The Taiwan-born businessman has advocated for the use of his company's chips in China, where Beijing has been accelerating development of its own semiconductors.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Countries have recognised the main barrier to accelerating those efforts is money.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Under her leadership, BP is accelerating efforts to cut net debt, aided by elevated oil and gas prices, as well as exceptional refining margins that have provided a cash windfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Turkey is accelerating rail projects aimed at creating a freight corridor from China to Europe through its territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He further informed Lawrence that he intended to back up Briggs “unless there was some decidedly strong case” for accelerating uranium research, which he had yet to see.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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