How to Use accelerated in a Sentence

accelerated

adjective
  • Of course, one of the most obvious is the accelerated rate of climate change.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The company hopes to counter that with accelerated store openings, with plans to open 650 stores in China this year.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, chicagotribune.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • But unlike in 1977, the drought effects have been worsened by accelerated climate change.
    Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In rare cases, an accelerated idioventricular rhythm may persist and take over the heart's normal sinus rhythm.
    Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Friday’s orders require the parties to file briefs and hold oral arguments in just ten days—the court’s most accelerated schedule since Bush v. Gore.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The proposal comes as state lawmakers push through the complicated and legally fraught once-in-a-decade redistricting process this fall on an accelerated timeline.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Artisan cheese tends to be a geeky subsection of America’s accelerated, ever-evolving food culture.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The record-setting play this season of rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese has put the league on an accelerated trajectory.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The accelerated timetable puts the Fed on a path to start raising rates in the first half of next year.
    Christopher Rugaber, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Is the goal to get this movie out before the end of the year now, and is that an accelerated schedule?
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
  • The accelerated timetable puts the Fed on a path to start raising rates as early as the first half of next year.
    Christopher Rugaber, ajc, 15 Dec. 2021
  • How is the game’s accelerated pace affecting you and your job in the broadcast booth?
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The story is an accelerated clash that rushes through three or four seasons of plot in these eight episodes.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The process is the same as that which occurs naturally when a body is buried, though at an accelerated rate.
    Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The pace of change is happening at such an accelerated rate.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The conflicting rulings likely put the issue on an accelerated path to the US Supreme Court.
    Sahar Fatima, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • This study, however, proved to be enough for the FDA to grant accelerated approval in early 2023.
    Jon Hu, STAT, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Those gaps have been blamed on both a shortage of accelerated programs in high-poverty schools and problems with the way schools screen for talent.
    Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Jack is now Ensign Jack Crusher, as he was placed on an accelerated track by Starfleet.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The president’s invitation was spurred by the accelerated warning of the arrival of the X-date.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • But the announcements of some accelerated product launches pushed Tesla from an April low, and the shares have soared 78% since then.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 July 2024
  • There are indications that the threat of the bomb contributed to that accelerated growth.
    Julia Sonenshein, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
  • In the wake of the Aduhelm approval, Pazdur has made public statements to defend the accelerated approval process.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • Lighting that is too bright could scorch leaves, and too little light could trigger accelerated leaf loss.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Paxton asked for an accelerated appeal from the state’s Third Court of Appeals.
    NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Free Speech for People, a liberal-leaning group that filed the lawsuit, appealed the ruling, asking the state Supreme Court to hear the case on an accelerated timetable.
    Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • At the same time, the pandemic pushed up expenses at an accelerated pace.
    Gordon Cox, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The accelerated rate at which Minaret has grown since 2019 draws from the renewable resource of friendship, which has allowed Minaret the potential of growth even when the money isn’t there.
    Jasmine Damian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The law school’s accelerated honors program also retained its record of a 100% pass rate for first-time test-takers.
    Esther Sun, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
  • The proposal would also give the FDA clearer ways to pull accelerated approval drugs off the market.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022

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