at this/that rate
idiom
: if things continue to happen in the same way they have been happening
At this rate, the town's farmland will be gone within 20 years.
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No one gets rich at that rate, just above New York’s minimum wage; but at least these hard workers can be assured a bare minimum.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
Typically, the service costs $99.99 per year and will renew at that rate.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
This is a prodigious rate of growth—at this rate, the cost of the hardware and electricity needed to build cutting-edge AI systems alone would be in the billions by later this decade, without accounting for other costs such as employee compensation.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 3 June 2024
Economists have said, time and again, that GDP will not continue to grow at that rate, or above, without more immigrants to bolster the domestic labor force.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 7 June 2024
Typically, the service costs $99.99 per year and will renew at that rate.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
This is a prodigious rate of growth—at this rate, the cost of the hardware and electricity needed to build cutting-edge AI systems alone would be in the billions by later this decade, without accounting for other costs such as employee compensation.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 3 June 2024
Economists have said, time and again, that GDP will not continue to grow at that rate, or above, without more immigrants to bolster the domestic labor force.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
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“At this/that rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20this%2Fthat%20rate. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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