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scale

[skayl] / skeɪl /


VERB
ascend, climb
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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He added that coverage at that scale for such liabilities isn’t available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Without the scale and profitability of tech giants, the newcomers have been heavily reliant on debt to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The revised population estimate also allowed scientists to calculate the scale of the demographic catastrophe that followed European colonization.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

It took a year to declutter and scale down.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Most consisted of two squadrons of ten aircraft apiece; Marina Raskova’s three female regiments were not going to change the outcome of an air war on this scale.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He said: "One of our biggest challenges is breaking through our own ceiling. Too often, our best ideas are developed and scaled overseas, and with it the jobs, technology and investment that goes with them."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

Then I looked around the beach and saw, drawn up in ranks, regiment after regiment of strange, silent, scaled soldiers, but I paid little attention to them.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

“Increasingly, our focus will be on scaling AVs in more cities and achieving higher supply density in those markets,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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

So the engineers, who knew more about flying vehicles than any others, began scaling the next learning curve.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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