gradual
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Sheinbaum has trod carefully in her gradual effort to rebuild bilateral relations.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
The group targets gradual market outperformance in revenue and aims to more than double its 2025 operating margin of 11.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
As the Economist recently argued, that could mean a more gradual build-out of renewable power, allowing more time to invest in cheaper onshore wind and reform the electricity market.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Investor complacency is increasingly evident as the Iran war gets normalized by markets, which are pricing in a base case of partial resolution and a gradual resumption of energy flows.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Like languages, like landscapes, like the slowly cooling cosmos, perhaps the animals and plants had descended from earlier forms through a process of gradual, continuous change.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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