decelerate
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Executives said they saw demand decelerate in April, particularly in Nike’s sportswear and Jordan streetwear segments, as shoppers put off discretionary purchases amid concerns about the Iran war and higher costs overall.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Conversely, if the stock drops significantly below that level, this process loses momentum, causing the company’s cryptocurrency purchases to decelerate.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 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
"You just decelerate so much before corners," Norris said.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
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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
Cloud revenue growth decelerates to 22% from 24.5% in the first quarter.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
It can flatten from the savage forces it experiences as it decelerates in a process called, and I love this, pancaking.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 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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U.K. headline inflation decelerated to 2.6% in June from 2.8% in May, coming in below analysts’ expectations of 2.7% in The Wall Street Journal’s poll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
Annual sales growth has decelerated over the past five years through 2025, and is expected to slow further this year, leaving it less room to fend off threats like X Money.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Overall retail investor purchases decelerated by 30% last week, with ETF inflows down 22% and significant net-selling in single stocks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
First, we descended from Hermes, and decelerated our orbital velocity so we could start falling properly.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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By measuring how strongly the expansion was decelerating, researchers hoped to determine how much matter was actually out there.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Meanwhile, China’s consumer price increased 0.5% from a year earlier, decelerating from June’s 1.0% growth and missing the 0.8% rise tipped by the economists surveyed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
SAP posted higher second-quarter revenue but lowered its operating profit guidance for the current fiscal year, citing decelerating growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Recent data, however, only shows “stabilization,” he said, pointing to decelerating wage growth, eroding real incomes and ongoing inflation pressures as factors likely to weigh on growth and drive Treasury yields lower.
From MarketWatch ● 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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