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accelerator

[ak-sel-uh-rey-ter] / ækˈsɛl əˌreɪ tər /
NOUN
machine for giving charged particles high velocity
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Joel Dodge is the director of industrial policy & economic security at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

“You’re starting to see some of those core road runners reach their limits,” says Steve Holmberg, founder of Insight Accelerator, a consumer research and strategy consultancy for sports and outdoor brands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Broadcom said it would deliver technology-supporting Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips, or MTIA, which will serve as the foundation of Meta’s AI data centers, through 2029.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

The housing factory surety guarantee idea is “super innovative,” said Jan Lindenthal-Cox, chief investment officer at the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund, a nonprofit that directs philanthropic money toward cost-cutting affordable housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Without fanfare, work on the Bevatron was halted and ramped up instead on the Materials Testing Accelerator, or MTA, as the new machine was inelegantly dubbed.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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