How to Use to scale in a Sentence

to scale

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  • If unit cost falls while outcomes hold or improve, there may be a case to scale.
    — Alec Scott, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Sometimes the route to scale is not to push harder on the product.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • This will cause readers to scale their concern to match your language.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Yields could pullback if traders start to scale back their bets on higher central bank rates.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
  • One of the key things that attracts backers is the tech’s ability to scale.
    — ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
  • Today’s pluggable laser modules take up valuable rack space and are hard to scale.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
  • The concept was proved possible, but this approach was hard to scale up.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026
  • While still in its pilot phase, ComEd plans to scale this in the future.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • This will likely force districts to make tough choices about which services to keep and which to scale back.
    — Jason Burns, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The smart money is wagering the phone call can finally be made to scale.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Yet engineers have long hit a wall when trying to scale up performance.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
  • When the cost of a service drops, demand tends to scale nonlinearly.
    — Vaibhav Dani, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • People can view two websites at once, open two apps side by side, or allow content to scale to the larger size.
    — David Ingram, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • His goal is to scale his business from around 100 orders per month to 650.
    — Huiyee Chiew and Lyric Li The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
  • And CEOs step in to raise capital, not to scale faster, but just to keep the lights on.
    — Ashish Srimal, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Cleaner workflows can reduce stress on teams and make the business easier to scale.
    — Chris Dunn, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • But most of the attempts to scale sodium-ion cells stumbled over short lifespans and poor heat tolerance.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Capacity to scale is a major facet of the mini suite’s appeal.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • In this sense, AI could help threat actors to scale their operations.
    — Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Pilots work, but the operating models don’t exist to scale them.
    — Dave McCann, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Half of the respondents are already using smaller deployments as a bridge to scale.
    — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Its digital plumbing was already in place and ready to scale beyond Sonic.
    — Clifford Hudson, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Most remain stuck in some sort of forever pilot mode, doing a lot but completely unable to scale those gains.
    — Jonas Barck, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Operators who miss that distinction tend to scale fast and break quietly.
    — Jeffery Khoury, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • On prediction markets, the only limits are their own ability to scale.
    — Chad Millman, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Purpose that sits in conflict with your incentives will detract from your ability to scale impact.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Ensure the height of the lamp is proportional to the height of the end table, and the overall size is to scale with the rest of the furniture.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2025
  • After Grande announced plans to scale back her public engagements, rumors about her well-being swirled.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Long-term impact requires funding the systems that allow innovation to scale and adapt.
    — Marjorie Parker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Plans are already afoot to scale consumer socialism across America.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

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