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“My guess is where that leads is just a lower gradient of returns from here, i.e., as earnings growth slows, the extent to which the market appreciates slows, but on net still positive,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

When the researchers repeated the simulations without maintaining the large-scale velocity gradient, the organized magnetic structures never formed.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

"We picked particular areas to enable us to see a gradient of high nutrients to low nutrients," said Dr Richard Unsworth from Swansea University, adding that the team's findings were "stark".

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

A gradient of retinoic acid in the nose appears to guide neurons, helping each one activate the correct smell receptor depending on its position.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026

PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Weak offshore gradients that bring warm desert air to the coast add to the heat, said Robbie Monroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

In options trading, there are gradients of success.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

At the same time, these events unfold within constantly changing physical conditions such as voltage fields, chemical gradients, ionic diffusion, and time-varying conductances.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025

In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell