“Q3 was up high single digits, around 8%. So it's -- it was better than we had expected. We had expected a softening in the back half. And in fact, it accelerated a little bit in Q3, now it might weaken a little bit in Q4 but still be up.”

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“onics, and it's just a little bit better than we had thought 90 days ago, frankly. Nicole DeBlase: Got it. That's really helpful. And then just from a geographic perspective, encouraging to see the acceleration in China and Europe. Any key standouts there in either region that really drove that improvement? William Brown: So U.S. was encouraging at coming up from the first half. I think first half was up 1%. Q3 was up 3.7%, almost 4%, which is pretty good. We're encouraged that Europe has accelerated a little bit. It was down in the first half about 1 point. It's up about 2 points in the quarter, which is good. China is quite interesting. You might recall, we grew about -- I think around double digits, low double digits last year. In the first half of the year, we're up mid-single digits. Q3 was up high single digits, around 8%. So it's -- it was better than we had expected. We had expected a softening in the back half. And in fact, it accelerated a little bit in Q3, now it might weaken a little bit in Q4 but still be up. And so we're very encouraged with the trends here. Remember, it's -- for us, it's about a little 10%, 12% of the company. It's about 50-50 domestic and export. And the China exports in September were up about 8%. So China continues to be pretty resilient in lots of ways, but we've got a great team there. There's a lot of self-help that's going on. We changed our organizational model in China as well as in India. And we're seeing just better performance because we're driving operational excellence, which is driving commercial effectiveness, a whole lot better than we might have done in the past. So part of the growth that we're seeing in China is just, I would say, self-help along with the market, but I think a lot of it is self-help. Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Nige”