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

Hours before slamming his foot down on the accelerator and heading west, Danny hijacked 10 kilos of heroin from the Italians and killed a crooked FBI agent who was about to blow him away.

From Washington Post

It also appeared that as she prepared to stop, she took her foot off the accelerator, Livernois said.

From Los Angeles Times