rate of change
Americannoun
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“The latter two have not been emphasized in the Tim Cook era but AI could require Apple to move with a higher rate of change when the speed of innovation is accelerating,” Mohan added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The consumer-price index’s trailing 12-month rate of change jumped to 4.2% in the most recent month, up from 3.8% in the prior month and 2.4% a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
“The rate of change in our business is so high right now that the limitations it would put in our technical development efforts make that a pretty unattractive proposition for us.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Affordability isn’t a synonym for inflation, which is the rate of change in the overall price level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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