brake
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.
In response, Berlin has eased its debt brake, allowing it to pour 500 billion euros, equivalent to around $580 billion, into a decadelong rearmament program.
The braking engine had been confirmed some time ago, but the other two elements will be a relief for the ESA.
From Barron's
It includes some of our must-have tech, such as automatic emergency braking and steering, adaptive cruise control with lane centering, and automatic high beams.
From MarketWatch
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
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