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You see patterns from the first film that then repeat themselves, but on a much larger scale, in the second film.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the coming years, Tau plans to scale up the number of cleanings and expand its service beyond San Francisco.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Here’s an off-the-peg solution that we can scale up rapidly and all over the place.”
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the scale of the boom—and its expanding reach into more economies—is seeding new worries about the global consequences if the AI mania ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Though she did not know how to spell scale, she knew where the election would be decided.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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That causes margins to drop, but the hope is the acquired company can soon be scaled to a point of high profitability.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Before the acquisition, 20th Century Fox routinely released 12 to 17 movies annually in theatres, but under Disney that slate scaled down to just three to six a year.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
His unconventional ceramics, like his painting, tend to be massively scaled and edge closer to sculpture than functional objects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
They have also scaled back efforts to send informational materials to clinicians and pharmacies ahead of respiratory-virus season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Its wings too were scaled; scales so fine that delicate pink membranes shone through on the underside.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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France and Germany have backed a further scaling down of EU emission rules for cars as part of a long-negotiated deal on the automotive industry struck Thursday, diplomatic sources confirmed to AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
The series of radical reforms, including scaling back jury trials, were presented as the best way of turning around record backlogs which, in turn, were exacerbating the prison population crisis.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
He also highlighted several “chokepoints” for scaling U.S. actuator production for robotics at scale, each of which bring their own challenges.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
"To do this requires scaling our efforts, widening our reach, and getting closer to the hardware."
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As wide-eyed sturgeon stared from glass cases, I led us into the shop, around the counter where Dylan spent his days mumbling curses and scaling fish, through a rust-pocked door.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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