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accelerationist

American  
[ak-sel-uh-rey-shuh-nist] / ækˌsɛl əˈreɪ ʃə nɪst /

noun

Economics.
  1. a person, especially an economist, who advocates or promotes the acceleration principle.


Etymology

Origin of accelerationist

acceleration + -ist

Example Sentences

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I wouldn’t put it in precisely accelerationist terms.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2025

But the core, accelerationist concept remains: a ploy to surpass capitalism by making more of it.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

The dominant, if there is a dominant Silicon Valley view, is normally accelerationist about technology because they see, wow, all the great things that technology can bring.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2022

"Such accelerationist groups are widespread and proliferating," they said in a court filing.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2021

Once he lived there, Land told me, he realised that “to a massive degree” China was already an accelerationist society: fixated by the future and changing at speed.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2017

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