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decelerate

[dee-sel-uh-reyt] / diˈsɛl əˌreɪt /
VERB
slow down
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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

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

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

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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