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scale

[skeyl] / skeɪl /


VERB
ascend, climb
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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The funding will support the push to commercialize cognitive robots and humanoids at scale, as well as expand the company’s AI-powered robotics platform, Neura said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"The crisis facing the Tapanuli orangutan illustrates the convergence of climate instability, biodiversity loss, and vulnerability, calling for a coordinated response matching the scale of the threat," they report wrote.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

"But discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected: the size of distribution, the depth and the age range were far beyond anything we had imagined," Xiaotong Peng said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The only humans who remain are a team of about a dozen park rangers and Department of Interior scientists who are working to review the fire damage and understand the scale of the loss.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

I had to weigh the bags separately, because the hanging scale only goes up to fifteen.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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