velocity
Example Sentences
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Sasaki’s elevated velocity posed early concerns for the Dodgers as he struggled more with his command.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
He added: "These fell with sufficient velocity - and from considerable height - as to cause damage to property and vehicles."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
“There were no analytics, there was no exit velocity, there was no chase rate,” Hyde said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Instead of simply cooling the atoms, they proposed manipulating the vacuum itself by creating "squeezed states," quantum states in which position and velocity behave in unusual ways.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Perhaps there is some unforeseen problem to interstellar spaceflight—although, at speeds much less than the velocity of light it is difficult to see what such an impediment might be.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing velocity
Automobiles
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Word Generation Science - Energy
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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