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accelerate

[ak-sel-uh-rayt] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪt /


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"They open the door to what's possible and may lead to the breakthrough we need to accelerate reef restoration."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

California’s $1-billion clean truck and bus subsidy program was designed to cut pollution and accelerate zero-emission sales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

On Thursday, Tesla said the Roadster was able to accelerate from a standstill to 60 miles an hour in less than a second.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Musk said the car was equipped with 10 nozzles and "ultra high-pressure air tanks" to propel itself into the air and accelerate quickly on the ground.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“As everyone knows, it is more difficult to accelerate an automobile than a baby carriage,” read one passage.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Meanwhile, as AI use accelerates, the world's most populous nation has rolled out incentives to attract big tech companies, including tax cuts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Slowing wage growth even as inflation accelerates is a sign that workers are having a hard time moving up to better-paying jobs, even if outright unemployment is low,” Adams of Fifth Third said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

A controlled human clinical trial will be needed to determine whether glucosamine directly accelerates Alzheimer's progression and, if so, which patients may be most vulnerable.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

It runs for around 375 miles on a charge, accelerates from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 2.9 seconds and will sell in the U.K. at the equivalent of roughly $230,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

As the tempo accelerates, the penalty of a miscue—an oar touching the water a fraction of a second too early or too late, for instance—becomes ever more severe, the opportunity for disaster ever greater.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

It accelerated from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second, with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk saying it will eventually be able to travel as fast as half the speed of sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

It accelerated with printing, telegraphy, radio, TV, computers, social media and AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those measurements reveal a long-term decline that accelerated during the 2000s, leading to a succession of exceptionally low ice levels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

This "indicates conditions for corals are worsening significantly... not at all surprising given the accelerated warming and lack of abatement of global drivers of coral decline", said Obura.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

They recognized it all at once: Seabiscuit, under a tremendous load, having already run at world-record speed for most of the race, accelerated.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Those who don’t have a job are locked out of the growing economy as if it were a fortress, leaving them puzzled by the headlines of low unemployment and an accelerating GDP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Burnham told Zelensky that Britain "would forever stand by you" and that he was accelerating the delivery of air defences to Ukraine.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“We’re entering our seasonally strongest fourth quarter with accelerating momentum, and a broad pipeline spanning whole portfolio, private markets, retirement, and our international platforms,” chairman and CEO Larry Fink said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

EBay stock advances as Morgan Stanley says the company’s live-shopping business is accelerating growth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The plane darts forward, accelerating as it bounces down the grass.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin


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