How to Use to scale in a Sentence

to scale

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  • Sometimes the route to scale is not to push harder on the product.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The smart money is wagering the phone call can finally be made to scale.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • When the cost of a service drops, demand tends to scale nonlinearly.
    — Vaibhav Dani, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Most remain stuck in some sort of forever pilot mode, doing a lot but completely unable to scale those gains.
    — Jonas Barck, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Long-term impact requires funding the systems that allow innovation to scale and adapt.
    — Marjorie Parker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Founders who internalize this reality earlier tend to scale faster.
    — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Guides spoke of the monthlong siege that ended only because of the treachery of a local noble who turned on the sultan and allowed British troops to scale the walls.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 2 July 2026
  • The next evolution is to scale what’s working into a reliable operating model.
    — Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • What they are increasingly focused on is how to scale relationship banking without scaling headcount.
    — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Without proper governance for people, processes and technology, your ability to scale will fall flat.
    — Saeed Amidi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Advertising also continues to scale, with first-party ad revenue up 33%, adding a high-margin lever to the marketplace model.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 1 July 2026
  • Demand fluctuates without a clear pattern, decisions consistently funnel back to one person and delivery teams aren’t built to scale.
    — Jason Bahnak, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Anterra will both back existing businesses raising money to scale and seed new ventures started in-house, of which Animerra is an example.
    — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The businesses best positioned to scale globally are often those that proactively build strategies around these realities rather than reacting to them later.
    — Armand Arton, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • By 2012, as offshore wind began to scale up, Olympic had already started diversifying into the sector.
    — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • And a stand-alone NBCUniversal could pursue deals with other media companies (once again, as a buyer or seller) to scale up and compete.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
  • This strategy aims to scale customer contact, which was previously a major cost, allowing even small operators to compete effectively.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Without clear ownership of the content life cycle, enterprises increase their risk and limit their ability to scale AI initiatives.
    — Sean Nathaniel, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Leveraging the country’s manufacturing prowess and electric vehicle supply chain, Chinese makers have been able to scale up production while driving prices down faster.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Sales organizations are running more buyer conversations than ever, yet technical expertise has remained difficult to scale.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Then the movie flashes back to tell their overall story — from Angela’s childhood in a circus family, to their initial collaboration, to their attempts to scale greater and greater heights, always with an eye on their follower counts.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • The documentary details the couple preparing to scale Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 super-skyscraper.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
  • Sustainable growth requires founders to spend less time on the details of products and services and more time shaping how the business operates, building trust in people, processes and systems that allow the company to scale with stability.
    — Jason Bahnak, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The partnership with Recycling Europe will offer Reju support in its efforts to scale textile-to-textile recycling in Europe and elsewhere.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • Once the evaluation process is complete, the company plans to scale production to thousands of units over the next three years, targeting manufacturers seeking to automate physically demanding and hazardous work.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • This standardization reduces complexity, lowers support requirements and allows businesses to scale more efficiently.
    — Damini Sood, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Commissioning budgets have tightened, development cycles have lengthened and the opportunities for growing indies to scale have become increasingly limited.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 2 July 2026
  • Instead of constructing more data centers that require electric grids to scale up their infrastructure and capacity, decentralization harnesses energy from existing sources, avoiding adding more power into the mix.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The question is whether the organization has the data, edge infrastructure, AI capability, and operating model to scale them beyond isolated pilots.
    — Todd Edmunds, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The organization warned that as search-and-rescue teams begin to scale back operations, humanitarian needs—particularly food, medical care and protection services—could intensify rather than diminish.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026

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