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velocity

[vuh-los-i-tee] / vəˈlɒs ɪ ti /


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“You should start thinking about GRATs when the velocity of your net worth starts to snowball,” said Nathan Dingler, co-founder of DiversiFi Capital, a Bay Area financial-planning firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

A major obstacle to enterprise AI adoption, according to those reports, isn’t technology capability, but the sheer velocity of organizational change hitting employees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Stafford, 38, won his first MVP award and — if preseason joint practices and workouts are any indication — shows no signs that he lost a step or velocity and touch on his passes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Nominal GDP is also growing faster than the money supply, which means the velocity of money, or nominal GDP divided by the money supply, is rising.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

The engineer was more reckless than his predecessor, going faster, goading the machine into velocity.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

By tracking extremely small changes in the spacecrafts' velocities, the team was able to reconstruct the gravitational field surrounding Mars.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

In an era where velocities are climbing across the game, the 24-year-old Misiorowski is pushing the limits of what was believed to be possible from the human body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The resulting simulations replicate the masses, locations, and motions of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as well as the positions and velocities of 31 galaxies just outside the Local Group.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

These days, sessions on the range are more about monitoring swing velocities and spin rates than where the ball actually lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2025

And Stephen Kellner, who loved to drive his German Road Machine at unsafe velocities, was right at home, leaning into each turn like a race car driver.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram




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