How to Use scale-up in a Sentence

scale-up

noun
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  • Fat tissue in people with MHO seems to be adept at this scale-up.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Le Berre says Lhyfe isn’t waiting for improvements to plan its offshore scale-up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2023
  • But the challenge is also not out of line with other scale-ups, like recent booms in the solar and wind industries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2024
  • Rapid scale-up of renewables is unlikely to be a point of controversy (although the rate might be).
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Walking away, however, means that Sony still needs to either sell or scale-up its Indian TV business.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The road from startup to scale-up was fraught with risk, but the rewards were potentially astronomical.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • Importantly, such a scale-up doesn’t require additional lines of code.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2023
  • Because there are eight billion people in the world, scale-up and widespread collaboration across countries would be necessary to make enough vaccine.
    — Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The financing is underpinning the company’s scale-up plans, Raja explains.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • While global governments are relying on a rapid scale-up of the wind industry to hit climate goals, shrinking profit margins and soaring costs have cooled development.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In contrast, fundraising involves securing external capital to accelerate growth and often leads to a rapid scale-up.
    — Jonathan Treble, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • That massive scale-up is crucial for America to quit the fossil fuel addiction bringing more extreme floods, droughts, and heat waves to an alarmingly hotter world, his administration contends.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Estonia and Latvia are banding together to purchase German air defense equipment, while Poland’s new government is scrambling to find European sources for its massive military scale-up.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Advertisement However, companies that are more scientific about adding talent—those employing a fractional to full-time model—will have fewer layoffs because much of their talent will be on demand with scale-up and scale-down capabilities.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023

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