FAST-FORWARDING Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

fast-forwarding

verb

present participle of fast-forward

as in accelerating

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Insulet’s international growth has been accelerating, with revenue rising between 30% and 32%, and full-year earnings per share growth anticipated to jump more than 30% from a year earlier.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the trend by helping organizations analyze data faster and act on it more effectively.

— Dirk Naylor, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of accelerating

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Bohm was speeding in his BMW on Dead Man's Curve, a notorious stretch of Southern California’s Pacific Coast Highway.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
Networks such as Island and Archipelago electronically matched buy and sell orders, speeding up execution and reducing reliance on traditional market makers and other intermediaries.

— Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026

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This is the second time this year that conferences have banded together to essentially stop something that was proceeding despite NCAA rules against it.

— Aaron Beard, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Among other requests, the complaint asked the court to declare the firings unlawful under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act and bar the Pentagon from proceeding with the terminations.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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Real-world robot dataset AGIBOT’s WORLD 2026 Theme 3 dataset initiative provides researchers with real-world robot experience data aimed at advancing reinforcement learning and embodied AI.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Readers can play along with a series of weekly elimination challenges involving clues from the book, eventually advancing to a final showdown with the Top 10 players.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

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Earlier in the year, the Yankees viewed Jones as a platoon bat, with nearly the entirety of his playing time coming against right-handers.

— Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Large numbers of Canadian snowbirds typically flock to warm-weather locations in Florida, Arizona and California when temperatures drop at home, making the coming months a test of whether the grassroots boycott will extend into another winter.

— Rio Yamat, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

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