decelerate
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“Unison singing of regular song structures makes the hearts of the singers accelerate and decelerate simultaneously,” it states.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
A soft number on Friday would validate Fed staff projections that monthly inflation readings should decelerate to levels consistent with 2% inflation now that tariff effects have worked through the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
They deliver powerful bursts of thrust that allow spacecraft to quickly accelerate, decelerate, climb, descend, or change position.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
But for fiscal 2026, the company expects same-store sales growth to decelerate to between 2.2% and 2.7%, with the midpoint of that range slightly below the current FactSet consensus of 2.5%.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Where virtually all horses decelerate and often drift out as they try to negotiate corners, Seabiscuit was capable of holding a tight line while accelerating dramatically.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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It decelerates the vehicle from about 350 miles per hour to about 17 miles per hour for a nice soft landing for the crew in the Pacific Ocean.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Analysts at Bank of America expect the BOC will resume cutting interest rates in April and June as core inflation decelerates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“It could just be the de-ce. I don’t know,” Redick said, alluding to the way Doncic decelerates with the ball in his hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
"The markets are in wait-and-see mode," Goldberg added, as traders assess whether the economy decelerates further or in fact proves to be more resilient than the Fed would like to see.
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2023
As Violet drives up, the world decelerates, and tiny details come into sharp focus.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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Shelter costs decelerated, showing the slowest pace of increase in more than five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
And it does seem like a steep sentence, for contact that wasn’t even given a yellow card at first, and which, when decelerated in granular slow-mo, looks worse than it actually was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Growth in cloud applications decelerated by 2 percentage points on a sequential basis, to 9%, “keeping the SaaSpocalypse theory alive,” according to Thill.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
The step up between the final months of 2025 and early 2026 was attributed to "upturns in government spending and exports and an acceleration in investment," while consumer spending decelerated.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
As the spaceship decelerated and pulled out of its orbit, heading down, down, down, it passed through several minutes of communications blackout.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The study directly responds to research from a South Korean team that claimed the universe may have entered a period of decelerating expansion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Investor concerns about decelerating growth have weighed on the company’s shares, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Declining oil prices are likely to send the main PCE index decelerating to around 3.5% by year-end, top Fed officials and Wall Street economists predict.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
With March-quarter growth having landed a touch below expectations, they see domestic demand decelerating over the rest of 2026 under the weight of interest-rate hikes, tax changes and energy costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Now it was decelerating with metal efficiency in the upper Martian atmospheres.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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