velocity

Example Sentences

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As far as baseball, he added a slider this season, picked up some velocity and tries to throw three pitches for strikes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

"The spectra revealed that the signatures of the high-temperature plasma change velocity between the three observations, following the orbital motion of the white dwarf rather than that of the Be star," the researcher continues.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

You attempted to accelerate, to compensate with velocity, by turning to the high risk, high payoff realm of far “out of the money” options.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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

In fact, the better you know a particle’s position, the less you know about its velocity, and vice versa.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife