scales
Example Sentences
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Any warm reading could tip the scales for the Federal Reserve to trigger its first interest-rate hike since 2023 later this month.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The official said that if the company the U.S. entered a deal with scales as planned, the country could be adding 50 million barrels to strategic oil reserves every year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Even if the movie never scales to a technical profit, it is by any account an unambiguous success.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
While all these theories successfully describe the large-scale clumping scientists can measure, they disagree over how dark matter should clump on smaller scales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
She couldn’t pat his horns or run her hands over his scales.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
