cusp
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This time around, and this may surprise some observers, Rizzo thinks companies are halfway through the spending cycle, and are on the cusp of an acceleration in capex.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“There’s a beetle that emerges on the cusp of summer. It has lots of colors. Blue, gold, purple. It looks like a turtle,” she tells a befuddled Rhaenyra.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
That puts the fund, which is down almost 10% from its peak earlier this year, on the cusp of correction territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Saturn's powerful rotation appears to "drag" the cusp away from noon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The place Dorothy Vaughan now called home was on the cusp of a defense industry boom that would be measured not in years but in decades.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Near a planet's poles, however, there are funnel-shaped openings known as "magnetospheric cusps."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Its teeth possessed sharp cusps and crests for slicing through the exoskeleton of insects and lacked the rounded crushing surfaces useful for eating fruit.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2023
Mr. Biden held a similar celebration with former President Barack Obama last year on the cusps of the midterms.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The researchers digitized the strange tooth using an x-ray scanner at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, precisely measuring its cusps, ridges, and crests.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2022
Scientists wonder about what happens in an oscillating universe at the cusps, at the transition from contraction to expansion.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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