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The plan is simply this: If you hit the guardrail on the high end or the low end, you will increase or decrease spending until you get back to that 85% chance of success.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Direct-to-consumer sales fell 8% due to a 13% drop in digital revenue and a 5% decrease in sales at Nike-owned stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Symptoms of the disease include nasal discharge, redness and swelling of the lips, nose and muzzle, lameness or reluctance to stand, a decrease in milk production, and diarrhoea in cattle.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The decrease "reflects a decline in sales volume as we raised prices and lowered online advertising spending" in anticipation of the removal of the customs duty exemption, the company said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

And I didn’t know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Yet there is growing evidence that skepticism actually decreases when people see a chain of thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The bill also gives some legal protection for school districts against financial penalties if their arts funding decreases as a result of factors beyond their control, such as the expiration of a grant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“We would not be surprised if we are not given much notice for long-end auction size decreases, which could be sooner than we initially anticipated before the buyback interventions were announced,” Brooks wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The results, published in Physical Review Letters, show that the strength of gravity decreases with distance almost exactly as predicted by Newton's equations and later incorporated into Einstein's theory of general relativity.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

These areas would show changes— like increases and decreases in blood flow—when study subjects were trying to focus on something, or when they were overwhelmed with information, putting intensified pressure on the attention networks.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Oil traders will also be looking for the EIA’s weekly report, which analysts expect will show decreased inventories for U.S. crude oil and distillates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

While that decreased after the new settings, the change wasn’t statistically significant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Both turtles were found cold-stunned - when temperatures rapidly decline and the struggle to find warmer waters can make them lethargic and experience decreased circulation.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

"When CS18 binds to BRCT7/8, the cancer-promoting activities of MYC and mutant p53 decreased, proteins involved in DNA repair became less active and cancer cells were more likely to die," Lin said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Hope your impatience on my picture has decreased.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

“It just feels like here’s a few good uses, here are 100 other uses that are maybe unnecessary and are maybe decreasing quality of life.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Turkey and the European Union each accounted for 5% during the same time period, although Russian energy exports to the EU have been decreasing.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But recent, more precise measurements of dark energy’s strength hint that it might actually be decreasing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

One widely discussed explanation had been that GLP-1 medications cause weight loss by decreasing the activity of neurons responsible for promoting hunger.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

On one of the shelves, Mariam saw a collection of identical wooden dolls, arranged in a line in order of decreasing size.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini