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
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
They deliver powerful bursts of thrust that allow spacecraft to quickly accelerate, decelerate, climb, descend, or change position.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 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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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
I hold myself steady as the bus decelerates and pulls to the curb.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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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
Sell-through of iPhones increased in January but decelerated in the U.S. and China despite promotional activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 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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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
The statistics bureau said the headline slowdown was primarily driven by decelerating gasoline price growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Gasoline prices rose by 1.0%, with the growth rate decelerating by 16.0 percentage points compared with the previous month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
On the backstretch, he was going along smoothly when, without warning, he threw his forelegs forward and propped, decelerating rapidly and dropping back through the field.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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