speed
Example Sentences
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Clocks slow down in stronger gravity and speed up where gravity is weaker.
From Science Daily
"That led to loss of control before the vehicle now swerved and rammed into the stationary truck that was parked. There was excessive speed...."
From Barron's
The most recent move came last week, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange said it would speed up the IPO process for Chinese companies developing reusable commercial rockets by exempting them from some financial requirements.
From MarketWatch
“It’s like speed cameras on freeways,” Bloom says.
When more ice melts along international waterways in the High North, the same shortcuts used by commercial vessels could speed China’s navy into the Atlantic, he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
