as in rate
an increasing in speed or rate of occurrence
Experts predict a steady acceleration in economic growth over the next two years.
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Recent Examples of acceleration
While the pay floor bumps mark an annual ritual, the report highlights an acceleration in the size of minimum wage increases in recent years.
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Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024
Priority reports that the motor's firmware has been optimized for faster acceleration and improved climbing capabilities.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
With rebuilding underway in the areas devastated by the storms and the strikes at Boeing BA.N and another aerospace company having ended, a sharp acceleration in job growth is anticipated in November.
—Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
These two spaces benefit not only from tailwinds in crypto, but are also exposed to the broader acceleration in AI and technology more broadly.
—Steven Dudash, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2024
Priority reports that the motor's firmware has been optimized for faster acceleration and improved climbing capabilities.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
With rebuilding underway in the areas devastated by the storms and the strikes at Boeing BA.N and another aerospace company having ended, a sharp acceleration in job growth is anticipated in November.
—Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
These two spaces benefit not only from tailwinds in crypto, but are also exposed to the broader acceleration in AI and technology more broadly.
—Steven Dudash, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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One 2018 study in the journal Nature found that Antarctica lost around 3 trillion metric tons of ice from 1992 to 2017, with the rate of loss increasing from about 76 billion metric tons per year before 2012 to 219 billion metric tons per year in most recent years.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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The outlook for 2025 is for just two more quarter-point cuts, down from three in the last survey, bringing the funds rate down to 3.8% by this time next year and 3.4%, or just above the average neutral rate, by the end of 2026.Steve Liesman, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Topline Shares of Adobe dropped by more than 12% on Thursday, putting the Photoshop maker’s stock on pace for its worst loss in nearly nine months after lowering its revenue forecast for the current fiscal year, despite reporting record revenue and earnings that beat out Wall Street’s expectations.Ty Roush, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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Grief is a long road, and each person heals at their own pace.Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
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Total Wireless has also introduced unlimited data on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network that promises to be up to 10 times faster than the median download speeds of other providers.Molly Higgins, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
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They peter and putter by at the speed of an escalator.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Read more Solar system Watch: NASA Experts Discuss Mission to 'Touch the Sun' Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Floor of Bones in City Center Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers detected and measured the high velocities of the D9 stars.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Here, the faster surface velocity of the rotating Earth means that a rocket can deliver around 24 percent more power than one fired from the Kennedy Space Center but with the same amount of thrust.Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Acceleration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acceleration. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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