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• And at this rate, that point could come at the end of next week.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• This doesn’t mean all of their income is taxed at that rate.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• That could prove to be the more compelling contest at this rate.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
• How often do you guys hear from James Wan and Leigh Whannell at this rate?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
• And there’s no way to predict whether this year’s events will continue at this rate.
  — Stefanie Dazio, ajc, 3 May 2023
• Freeze put that number closer to 85%, but said even at that rate, McLeod is still able to help Auburn’s pass rush in a big way.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2023
• If he got caught speeding at that rate, it could reasonably be expected to end up in the news.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Ajax, at this rate, might not qualify for the Champions League.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Auburn’s tight ends continue to be involved in the passing game and, at this rate, may be the most reliable weapons the team has in the passing game.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2021
• By the end of the century, at this rate, a third or more of the world will not merely experience extreme heat but live in it.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• But at this rate, conservatives are rapidly running out of places to eat, drink, and shop.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
• But even at that rate, savers are still losing money to inflation.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Expect more spinoffs, at this rate one for every year in U.S. history.
  — David Katz and Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
• Typically, the service costs $99.99 per year and will renew at that rate.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
• But those grand plans are looking a lot less likely at this rate — unless there’s a dramatic uptick in ticket sales.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Feb. 2024
• Murph’s already working on new music, and at this rate her career is only going to grow.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• But at this rate, that could still leave hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs unprotected.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• But Reinsdorf can’t be too depressed or disgusted if the Sox’s value continues to grow at that rate.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• He’s never delivered at this rate anywhere in his career.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• If that machine continues at that rate there will be, without a question, an incident and an injury.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 29 June 2023
• Based on forecasts of the economic recovery, Cunningham expects to distribute food at this rate for the next two years.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• Being agile and adaptable with a high level of empathy is critical in these times growing at this rate.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• If Biden continues at this rate, then by next June his approval rating on the economy will be 43 or 44 percent, which is still pretty anemic.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• If adoption of EVs continues at this rate, a quarter of new car sales could be electric by the end of 2025 — a year or two ahead of earlier projections, according to Bloomberg.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 13 July 2022
• Economists have said, time and again, that GDP will not continue to grow at that rate, or above, without more immigrants to bolster the domestic labor force.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
• The firm estimates that if concert-goers continue spending at this rate, the Eras Tour could generate $4.6 billion in consumer spending in the US alone.
  — Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 7 June 2023
• Functionally, that’s the equivalent of paying taxes at that rate.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
• Cultivators would also be taxed at that rate under the revisions.
  — Samantha Hendrickson, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
• If Russia continues at this rate, its remaining inventory will dwindle in the next couple of years, and its future options will be constrained as a result.
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024
• In 2009, however, the subprime-mortgage crisis prompted the Fed to buy bonds, essentially creating an implicit guarantee that junk bonds weren’t going to default at that rate again; the Fed wouldn’t allow it.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024