acceleration
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In Oregon the trend has been one of reckless acceleration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
JPMorgan Chase reported blowout second-quarter profit, as an acceleration in investment banking fees and activity highlighted record performances in each of the banking giant’s business segments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"As of Hungary, we will start to see a bit of an acceleration in our competitiveness," Stella said.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Morgan upgraded Qualys to Neutral and expects Tenable to benefit from an expected acceleration in vulnerability volumes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
For months I studied and plotted the data from the plane’s flight recorder, noting the plane’s altitude, speed, acceleration, and so on, measured during the flight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Similar surveys pointed to accelerations in India, Japan and Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
It included the dates of 640 trips, their start and end times, the distance driven and an accounting of any speeding, hard braking or sharp accelerations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Inertial measurement unit data is processed to determine hard braking, hard accelerations and hard turns and GPS data.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Some of Dr Wyss-Coray's earlier work suggests the biological ageing process is not steady but comes in bursts, with some rapid accelerations in people's mid-30s, early-60s and late-70s.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
Under extremely strong gravitational accelerations, even light is affected.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing acceleration
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