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

The combination of these issues “may increase the probability of mistakenly stepping on the accelerator pedal for a long time, which may increase the risk of collision and pose a safety hazard,” it said.

From Seattle Times

The issue involves the vehicles’ regenerative braking system, which generates electricity from the car’s motion when the driver takes a foot off the accelerator.

From New York Times