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"Robust regulation remains the best way to tackle illegal content, but it simply isn't acceptable for the regulator to take a gradualist approach to immediate threats to life," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

He repeated it Sunday to explain why a gradualist approach to the situation, which would require financing, was not an option.

From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2023

But if further studies of obscure, primitive eukaryotes revealed some that have only a subset of eukaryotic organelles, this could lend weight to the gradualist hypothesis.

From Scientific American • Jun. 13, 2022

In defense of the classical gradualist theory of evolution, nearly all biologists in the late 1960s rejected the theory of endosymbiosis as presented by Lynn Margulis in 1967.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

China has generally implemented reforms in a gradualist or piecemeal fashion.

From The 2006 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency