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

The company expects growth to decelerate further in the current first quarter, projecting growth between 11% and 14%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

If its sales meet expectations for the next few quarters, the market should have confidence that its growth won’t decelerate further.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

“We’re forcing students to literally decelerate their progress to degrees, by telling them to do something they can’t actually do,” Shaver said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 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