How to Use to scale in a Sentence
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Sometimes the route to scale is not to push harder on the product.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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Today’s pluggable laser modules take up valuable rack space and are hard to scale.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
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The smart money is wagering the phone call can finally be made to scale.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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When the cost of a service drops, demand tends to scale nonlinearly.
—Vaibhav Dani, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Capacity to scale is a major facet of the mini suite’s appeal.
—Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
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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
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Long-term impact requires funding the systems that allow innovation to scale and adapt.
—Marjorie Parker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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Plans are already afoot to scale consumer socialism across America.
—Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
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Honeywell Aerospace wants to scale up its defense business overseas.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 9 July 2026
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Textiles remain one of the most difficult markets to scale into, however.
—Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
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The veteran designer said nearly every element would have to be custom-built to scale.
—Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
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The Entrust researchers also found that fraudsters are using AI to scale their attacks.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
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Founders who internalize this reality earlier tend to scale faster.
—Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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For the first time, educators may have a practical way to scale what special education has long understood.
—Lisa Schade, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Guides spoke of the monthlong siege that ended only because of the treachery of a local noble who turned on the sultan and allowed British troops to scale the walls.
—Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
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How to Try the House Hushing Method If you’re intrigued but hesitant, the key is to scale the method down.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026
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The 31-year-old woman, who has not been publicly identified, was sitting on a steel cable, prompting officers to scale the bridge to reach her.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
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The next evolution is to scale what’s working into a reliable operating model.
—Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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What they are increasingly focused on is how to scale relationship banking without scaling headcount.
—Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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In your first week or two, aim to have the agent reliably and consistently produce a few high-quality articles before proceeding to scale.
—Thenuka Karunaratne, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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Without proper governance for people, processes and technology, your ability to scale will fall flat.
—Saeed Amidi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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Advertising also continues to scale, with first-party ad revenue up 33%, adding a high-margin lever to the marketplace model.
—Tony Zhang, CNBC, 1 July 2026
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Demand fluctuates without a clear pattern, decisions consistently funnel back to one person and delivery teams aren’t built to scale.
—Jason Bahnak, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Anterra will both back existing businesses raising money to scale and seed new ventures started in-house, of which Animerra is an example.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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Twenty years ago, European broadcasters desperate to scale — to get big or die — got turned down by regulators not yet convinced this new-fangled internet was all that.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
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The businesses best positioned to scale globally are often those that proactively build strategies around these realities rather than reacting to them later.
—Armand Arton, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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Many of the practices education leaders are now seeking to scale through technology have existed in special education classrooms for decades.
—Lisa Schade, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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By 2012, as offshore wind began to scale up, Olympic had already started diversifying into the sector.
—Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Digital enterprises learned how to scale experiences, transactions and services at near-zero marginal cost.
—Motaz Agamawi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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And a stand-alone NBCUniversal could pursue deals with other media companies (once again, as a buyer or seller) to scale up and compete.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
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