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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

Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

The first involved adding a constantly renewed velocity gradient into the simulations.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 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

He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

A weaker AMOC, he argues, could sharpen the temperature contrast between northern and southern Europe - one of the gradients that helps drive storms and other extremes.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The coffers have their own rhythm; indirect lighting turns the hollows into shadow gradients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Oxygen moves through these tracheoles by diffusion, traveling down concentration gradients to reach the flight muscles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

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

He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson