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decelerate

[dee-sel-uh-reyt] / diˈsɛl əˌreɪt /
VERB
slow down
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They deliver powerful bursts of thrust that allow spacecraft to quickly accelerate, decelerate, climb, descend, or change position.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth was encouraged by Meta’s increased advertising revenue, although he expects sales growth to decelerate throughout the year and sees a more “challenging” path to returns outside of advertising.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

"You just decelerate so much before corners," Norris said.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2026

The company expects growth to decelerate further in the current first quarter, projecting growth between 11% and 14%.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 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

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

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

The low hum of a centrifuge decelerates until it stops.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Headline annual inflation is expected to have decelerated in June to 3.0% from 3.2% previously, according to The Wall Street Journal’s poll of analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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

Still, inflation excluding the effect of indirect taxes has decelerated each month this year, slowing to 1.9% last month from 2.5% at the end of 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 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

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

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

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

Because of this, horses must be brought down from exercise gradually, slowly decelerating over about a half mile after a race and then undergoing a long walk.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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