decelerate
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They deliver powerful bursts of thrust that allow spacecraft to quickly accelerate, decelerate, climb, descend, or change position.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 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
"You just decelerate so much before corners," Norris said.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Shelter costs for Canadians continue to decelerate, rising 1.7% for the latest month, marking the first time in almost five years shelter expenses have advanced by less than 2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 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
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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
It can flatten from the savage forces it experiences as it decelerates in a process called, and I love this, pancaking.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
I hold myself steady as the bus decelerates and pulls to the curb.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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Headline annual inflation is expected to have decelerated in June to 3.0% from 3.2% previously, according to The Wall Street Journal’s poll of analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
China’s consumer spending growth decelerated to its weakest pace since 2022 in April, while industrial output, investment and the real-estate sector all continued to deteriorate, falling short of economists’ expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
First, we descended from Hermes, and decelerated our orbital velocity so we could start falling properly.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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By measuring how strongly the expansion was decelerating, researchers hoped to determine how much matter was actually out there.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Gasoline prices rose by 1.0%, with the growth rate decelerating by 16.0 percentage points compared with the previous month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Investor concerns about decelerating growth have weighed on the company’s shares, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
He said AI capital spending — with the four major hyperscalers looking to spend $700 billion on AI infrastructure this year — is actually accelerating, not decelerating.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
He amused himself by propping in mid-workout, decelerating rapidly and vaulting his jockey up onto his neck.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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