How to Use rate of change in a Sentence

rate of change

noun phrase
  • The move can hold so long as ‘rate of change’ sustains.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • If anything, the rate of change today is even faster than that.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • The rate of change compounds the challenge.
    — Tharin Pillay, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And for high growth businesses, the slow rate of change just can’t keep up.
    — Alyssa Jaffer, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The rate of change may be more important than the level.
    — Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The issues are the rate of change in the nature of warfare and the reasons for it.
    — Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Inflation is the rate of change in prices, often measured over a year.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
  • This potential will not be the same everywhere; the rate of change will be uneven.
    — Erik Roth, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What makes this moment different is the rate of change that’s happening right now.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The world is changing, and the rate of change is accelerating.
    — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • What has changed, and changed dramatically, is the rate of change itself.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • This hair has to do with the rate of change, or the gradient, of space-time’s curvature at the horizon.
    — Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
  • Human populations and ecosystems are struggling to keep up with the rate of change.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Michigan's rate of change for its middle-class income range places it at 21st out of 50 states.
    — Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
  • The pace and rate of change in the workforce is happening at unprecedented levels.
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • As if to underline the slow rate of change, the leader of this year’s championship is … Surrey.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Revenue rates of change, margin rates of change, employee rates of change - these variables form the backbone of the equation.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Calculus is a type of math that focuses on the rate of change over time or a mathematics course taught in high school and college.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Though some climate change occurs naturally over millions of years, the current rate of change is a problem.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The latest figures don’t indicate that the prices for many items are inexpensive but rather, that the rate of change has been easing here.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2024
  • In comparison, the national rate of change over the same period of time was 42%.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The rate of change and acceleration within the AI space is only picking up the pace.
    — Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Due to the slow rate of change, the myth that old windows are thicker at the bottom due to centuries of gravity pulling on the slowly flowing glass is not true.
    — John Mauro, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Although women’s representation remains far from equal to that of men, the rate of change is increasing.
    — Jamille Bigio, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The rate of change is brutally exponential, and the complexity of the world is daunting.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers compared the participants’ rate of change in breast density to the average change in a control group.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 9 May 2023
  • Finger checks can’t give you the information that a CGM can, such as the rate of change of glucose levels.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 May 2015
  • However, what differentiates the current crisis is the rate of change.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The rate of change across devices, applications and connections outpaces what human teams can track or document.
    — Pavel Bykov, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Tesla’s 11-week rate of change is now at -30%, and the decline looks even worse when factoring in intraday data.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025

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