decelerate
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But for fiscal 2026, the company expects same-store sales growth to decelerate to between 2.2% and 2.7%, with the midpoint of that range slightly below the current FactSet consensus of 2.5%.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
Services revenue, in particular, should decelerate through the first half of 2026 before accelerating in the second half of the year, analysts said.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
Citi thinks the decent sales trend could continue during the upcoming festive season, although its momentum may decelerate because of the higher base of comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
Mike Phipps, the city’s contracted geologist, said that overall movement had started to naturally decelerate in August for the first time in months, probably because there hadn’t been rain in the last five months.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
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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