substantially

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Founder and CEO Nilam Ganenthiran declined to disclose Beacon’s valuation, but said it had increased substantially from the $1 billion the company cited at its $250 million Series B round in November.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The team's experiments showed that the gold-patterned structures substantially increased the amount of heat moving across the gap, achieving heat transfer rates up to four times greater than comparable systems lacking the engineered patterns.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

“Comics Unleashed” drew 1.1 million viewers in its debut in the new time slot last month, down substantially from the 2.7 million Colbert’s show averaged in its final season.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“While obviously semis have run up substantially, we believe that this will be an elongated cycle and many areas are just getting started,” says Christopher Shaffer, managing partner at Talaria Capital Management.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

But in none of these cases did anyone substantially alter the content of what they were saying.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell