- present tense form of accelerate (3rd person singular).
accelerates
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As this technology accelerates its own evolution, the risk is that we struggle to keep pace and keep it under control, writes columnist Ben Cohen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
For the Bank of Japan, the key lies in whether wage growth momentum accelerates further, and if it continues and spreads across the economy, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"Illness acts as a crossroads in a pontificate -- it either accelerates its momentum or diminishes its power," Vatican watcher Giacomo Galeazzi wrote in La Stampa daily on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
A catalyst is a substance that accelerates a chemical reaction without being permanently changed in the process, Stylianou said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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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