decelerate

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But for fiscal 2026, the company expects same-store sales growth to decelerate to between 2.2% and 2.7%, with the midpoint of that range slightly below the current FactSet consensus of 2.5%.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

"You just decelerate so much before corners," Norris said.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Elastic raised its forecast for full-year revenue, but its call implied growth in cloud will decelerate further in the third quarter, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Thomas Blakey said in a research note.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

“Global growth is forecast to decelerate in the second half of 2025,” said Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s top economics official.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee