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decelerate

[dee-sel-uh-rayt] / diˈsɛl əˌreɪt /
VERB
slow down
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Electric vehicles can also accelerate and decelerate much more quickly than conventional combustion cars, which Di Giulio says can cause motion sickness.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Unison singing of regular song structures makes the hearts of the singers accelerate and decelerate simultaneously,” it states.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

A soft number on Friday would validate Fed staff projections that monthly inflation readings should decelerate to levels consistent with 2% inflation now that tariff effects have worked through the system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth was encouraged by Meta’s increased advertising revenue, although he expects sales growth to decelerate throughout the year and sees a more “challenging” path to returns outside of advertising.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Even if growth in data center decelerates slightly next year,” the analysts said Texas Instruments’ total revenue should be able to grow by about 20%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Analysts at Bank of America expect the BOC will resume cutting interest rates in April and June as core inflation decelerates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

“It could just be the de-ce. I don’t know,” Redick said, alluding to the way Doncic decelerates with the ball in his hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Cloud revenue growth decelerates to 22% from 24.5% in the first quarter.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

As Violet drives up, the world decelerates, and tiny details come into sharp focus.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

U.K. headline inflation decelerated to 2.6% in June from 2.8% in May, coming in below analysts’ expectations of 2.7% in The Wall Street Journal’s poll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Food bought from stores rose 4.3% year-over-year in May, while shelter prices decelerated, with rent rising 3.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Growth in cloud applications decelerated by 2 percentage points on a sequential basis, to 9%, “keeping the SaaSpocalypse theory alive,” according to Thill.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

The step up between the final months of 2025 and early 2026 was attributed to "upturns in government spending and exports and an acceleration in investment," while consumer spending decelerated.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

As the spaceship decelerated and pulled out of its orbit, heading down, down, down, it passed through several minutes of communications blackout.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

The study directly responds to research from a South Korean team that claimed the universe may have entered a period of decelerating expansion.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, China’s consumer price increased 0.5% from a year earlier, decelerating from June’s 1.0% growth and missing the 0.8% rise tipped by the economists surveyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Declining oil prices are likely to send the main PCE index decelerating to around 3.5% by year-end, top Fed officials and Wall Street economists predict.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

On a monthly basis, headline CPI fell 0.1% in May, decelerating from a 0.3% rise in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

On the backstretch, he was going along smoothly when, without warning, he threw his forelegs forward and propped, decelerating rapidly and dropping back through the field.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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