accelerate
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"The question is whether we can accelerate use of it so that we pay for the transition."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Because Venus was more experienced and stronger, Serena was forced to accelerate her development just to compete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pradhan said the scale of devastation meant reconstruction could take precedence over promises to transform the economy and accelerate development.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
If extremely powerful lasers are aimed at such a sail, they could accelerate it to speeds well beyond what current propulsion systems can achieve.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
But she was afraid to accelerate for fear of running into a speed trap.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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“This transaction accelerates our ambition to become an industrial technology partner to the data center industry and help customers address the growing infrastructure complexity required to scale AI,” SLB Chief Executive Olivier Le Peuch said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"This suggests APOE4 accelerates a process that resembles normal aging, and could explain why people with the gene variant are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease earlier in life," Huang says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
But the prospect also carries environmental risks if increased traffic accelerates Arctic melting, with soot emissions that settle on the ice cap trapping heat from sunlight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
So some analysts think interest rates may not rise this year - but there are still risks they do, especially if inflation accelerates by an unexpected amount.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Saturn as for Jupiter, the magnetic field captures and accelerates the charged particles of the solar wind.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Guimaraes' former Newcastle team-mate Sandro Tonali and Bournemouth's Alex Scott were also among the midfielders explored before a move for the South American accelerated.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
"Common framework means restructuring," Robert Besseling, CEO of Pangea-Risk, told AFP, adding that the "enhanced" component likely refers to an accelerated pace.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
A bank putting accelerated servers in a room it has run for years is not building anything — it is buying different hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Energy costs continue to propel inflation in the 21-nation currency area, having accelerated further in August after an escalation in hostilities in the Middle East drove oil prices higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"I probably might just fit in one of those double-barreled accelerated courses in elementary German they've rigged up."
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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It sees growth accelerating to 2.16 million barrels a day next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Two of US President Donald Trump's top envoys have arrived in Moscow ahead of a weekend of talks aimed at accelerating efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The obvious objection is that cloud revenue is accelerating, rather than shrinking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Scientists say the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, are warming rapidly as global temperatures rise, accelerating glacier melt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He further informed Lawrence that he intended to back up Briggs “unless there was some decidedly strong case” for accelerating uranium research, which he had yet to see.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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