pick up speed/momentum
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: to begin to have more speed/momentum
The cyclists quickly picked up speed as they headed down the mountain.
His campaign has begun to pick up momentum.
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Clipper will first fly to Mars to slingshot around the planet and pick up speed in early 2025.
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Jay Bennett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
Cognitive science research helps to explain how such virtuous empathetic cycles can pick up speed.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Great-power competition will intensify, predatory trade practices will spread, and the democratic reversal already under way will pick up speed.
—Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2018
As of Sunday morning, Ernesto had winds of 70 mph and was moving slowly -- heading north-northeast at only 9 mph -- though it is predicted to pick up speed in the course of the day.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2024
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Jay Bennett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
Cognitive science research helps to explain how such virtuous empathetic cycles can pick up speed.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Great-power competition will intensify, predatory trade practices will spread, and the democratic reversal already under way will pick up speed.
—Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2018
As of Sunday morning, Ernesto had winds of 70 mph and was moving slowly -- heading north-northeast at only 9 mph -- though it is predicted to pick up speed in the course of the day.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2024
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