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scale

[skayl] / skeɪl /


VERB
ascend, climb
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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I've been saying for years that the logical conclusion of these AI models being able to find vulnerabilities at speed and at scale is that there's going to be a flood of these vulnerabilities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

It's about trying to "re-balance the scale a little bit".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Booz Allen said it continues to see momentum across its national security portfolio, prompting the company to build and scale its cyber and defense-technology products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The scale of the decline is particularly striking over the past five years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Ending slavery was a challenge on the same gigantic scale as these earlier achievements.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

A majority of the drug shortages have ended, but compounding pharmacies haven’t scaled down, regulators say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

My original parties were scaled down, and they were wonderful.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Amanpour said her daily news show on CNN will be scaled back to once a week until next June, while her PBS program will also end.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

There are six nations in the combined Group B-C, but all the teams play just three opponents - think a scaled down version of the league phase in football's Champions League.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

When he showed Mama, her voice scaled up like Francie’s when she said, “Spats?”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

CEO Elon Musk laid out ambitious targets of scaling the company’s data-center capacity to potentially 20 gigawatts by the end of 2027, up from just 1.7 gigawatts at the end of the third quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Though Disney has collaborated with creators for years, the company is now scaling its efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

Rather than setting aside new budget for the strategy, Cook said David’s has kept its investment flat year-over-year while scaling innovation and evolving the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

And by the looks of it, countless others who’d been infected had joined him—there were hundreds scaling the broken wall.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner


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