accelerator

Example Sentences

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Ueda said raising rates at an appropriate speed won’t put the brakes on Japan’s economy—rather, it would take the foot off the accelerator enough to achieve growth and price stability.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sources that produce cosmic rays are powerful enough to propel protons or electrons to energies far beyond what the most advanced human-made particle accelerators can reach.

From Science Daily

The team used a specialist retrieval system to access the airbag control module – where a snapshot of electronic data, triggered by the crash, revealed speeds, accelerator position, steering wheel angle and brake pedal application.

From BBC

For example, DOE runs four circular electron accelerators, or synchrotrons, that generate x-rays, and since the 1970s the intensity of such sources has increased 100 billion–fold.

From Science Magazine

"It was one thing to take your foot off the brake - but another to put your foot on the accelerator," he said.

From BBC