gradual

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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

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

Using the gradual accumulation of genetic changes, known as the "molecular clock," the researchers dated the oldest lineages found only in Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans to about 60,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

"Restarting oilfields and fixing damaged infrastructure is a gradual process, and producers will be cautious about ramping up output without reliable export routes," said Simone Tagliapietra, a fellow at Europe's Bruegel institute.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

In keeping with the compromise character of the committee report, it gave the Deep South the protection it had demanded by denying congressional authority to pass any gradual emancipation legislation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis