Thesaurus results for SCALING

scaling

verb

present participle of scale

as in measuring

to find out the size, extent, or amount of scaled the logs to get a rough idea of the amount of usable lumber they were likely to yield

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Recent Examples of scaling OpenAI argues that leadership will depend on scaling infrastructure quickly and converting that capacity into products people depend on daily. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026 And Columbia, founded in 1938, has steadily expanded its extended sizing across snow jackets and pants for more than two decades, offering up to 3X in many women’s styles and investing in separate pattern grading rather than simply scaling up smaller designs. —

Marisa McMillan, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026 So in addition to scaling back on movie spending, Paramount-WB will need to slash costs like crazy. —

Josef Adalian, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026 From seventh-grade teacher coaching five sports and earning $3,200 to coaching five NBA franchises over 25 seasons and scaling the sport’s mountaintop. —

Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026 His insight into building premium franchises, scaling businesses internationally and supporting creative ambition comes at exactly the right time for Two Daughters. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026 In general, keeping the ion exchange membrane intact is one of the biggest challenges for scaling this type of process, says Feifei Shi, assistant professor of energy engineering at Penn State. —

IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026 Rent increases would be limited to the lesser of 3% or the Consumer Price Index after an initial flat period, with rents scaling up to market-rate levels over 10 years. —

Devan Patel, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026 First Brands began scaling back parts of its North American operations while seeking buyers for certain assets. —

Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026

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Meteorologists were measuring in feet, not inches for this whopper, as more than three feet of snow were dumped on parts of Rhode Island.

— Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
Spanning nearly a quarter of the lunar surface, the crater, which sits on the far side of the moon, is the largest with a diameter measuring roughly 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers).

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026