accelerant
noun
ac·cel·er·ant
ik-ˈse-lə-rənt 
ak-
: a substance used to accelerate a process (such as the spreading of a fire)
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Breakthrough gains emerge when people stop viewing AI as an accelerant for existing methods and start envisioning entirely new approaches to accomplish objectives.
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Drew Naukam, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
The bond market, supply chains blinking red and increasingly apocalyptic warnings from executives across major industries all served as critical accelerants for Trump’s personal pivots.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Yet even as expectations have grown, relative public investment in science has, paradoxically, diminished, despite the fact that basic scientific research is a massive accelerant of economic productivity and effectively self-financing.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
In the hyper-capitalist world of modern football, money is an accelerant — what is necessary to fix this club will not now arrive on the speediest of timelines.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Drew Naukam, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
The bond market, supply chains blinking red and increasingly apocalyptic warnings from executives across major industries all served as critical accelerants for Trump’s personal pivots.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
Yet even as expectations have grown, relative public investment in science has, paradoxically, diminished, despite the fact that basic scientific research is a massive accelerant of economic productivity and effectively self-financing.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
In the hyper-capitalist world of modern football, money is an accelerant — what is necessary to fix this club will not now arrive on the speediest of timelines.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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“Accelerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accelerant. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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