gradient
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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
"So that's really the main key: to have a steady, large-scale gradient in velocity," he emphasizes.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 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
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
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In extended sources, researchers observed systematic age gradients that are consistent with the movement of plasma through the lobes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
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
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
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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