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cusp

[kuhsp] / kʌsp /


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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

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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