Verb meaning to be earlier (than expected)
Given the sentence:
As the policy timeline continues to _________, we expect the industry to pick up momentum.
This phrase is used a lot in my writing and I have already exhausted some of the more obvious choices like "accelerate." I also thought "advance" might work here, but I don't think it conveys the earlier than expected implication.
Solution 1:
As the policy timeline continues to hasten, we expect the industry to pick up momentum.
Hasten
to cause to hasten; accelerate
to hasten someone from a room; to hasten the arrival of a happier time.
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