slowdown
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Quixote’s retreat comes amid a major slowdown in Hollywood production, as many productions leave California in pursuit of tax incentives around the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Elon Musk’s Tesla logged 4% growth in August registrations to 15,430 units across the continent, a slowdown from double-digit growth in recent months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Traverso said that any "correction in transfer values" or "slowdown in buyer demand" could have serious implications for any club carrying debt.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It’s unclear exactly what such a slowdown would look like, and both OpenAI and Anthropic released new models on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The ripple of the slowdown thudded back through the cars to the tail of the train.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
They’ve repeatedly urged coordinated industrywide slowdowns in development but never acted upon them.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
In an article published on 6 September, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for the industry to implement "voluntary slowdowns" until safeguards are set.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The statistical results also identified a cluster of evolutionary slowdowns around 15 million years ago, which coincided with another major geological event.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Solution: investment in machinery that moved slaughtered livestock from one place to the next, eliminating slowdowns.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
