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decelerate

[dee-sel-uh-rayt] / 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

The rate of inflation would probably have to decelerate to under 3%, but it might not reach that goal before year end.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 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

"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

“Even if growth in data center decelerates slightly next year,” the analysts said Texas Instruments’ total revenue should be able to grow by about 20%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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

Cloud revenue growth decelerates to 22% from 24.5% in the first quarter.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

The low hum of a centrifuge decelerates until it stops.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Customer wins and revenue growth have decelerated, they warn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

While that was up 50% from the previous quarter, revenue growth decelerated from the 140% jump between the first and second quarter of 2026, according to Wednesday’s Financial Times story.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Between the first and second quarter, Anthropic’s revenue grew roughly 140% — which means that the company’s growth has decelerated since the beginning of the year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 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

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

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

He said AI capital spending — with the four major hyperscalers looking to spend $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year — is actually accelerating, not decelerating.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

I, on the other hand, power walked even during my leisure hours and had a hard time decelerating.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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