velocity

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“We are trying to heal that velocity that we had in the past year. If you go so fast, you’re going to crash,” Paco Amoroso told Billboard in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

In that scenario, a spacecraft would strike the object and slightly alter its velocity.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Mississippi’s children are getting off the launchpad, but they’re failing to achieve orbital velocity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

The fear is that sustained higher oil prices could feed back into inflation, just as many parts of the world thought they were finally achieving some escape velocity.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

But word leaked out in the summer of 1795 and then spread, as Madison put it, “like an electric velocity to every part of the Union.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis