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"Being the underdog has given him the freedom to take some big swings."
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Releasing your first album is a big step for any artist, but for Jazzy it's one that's followed some huge strides.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Apple’s new foldable iPhone went on sale in stores Friday and the reviews that greeted CEO John Ternus’s big release were mixed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Tampa Bay Rays will host those games, but the Brewers invited fans to come to their stadium and watch on the big screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
So my mom was going to see her, even though there was a big storm looming.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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As the harvest shifts, Maine's lobstermen are sailing out to deeper waters -- on bigger boats, using more diesel and crew.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
This is when our brain makes us think the Moon looks bigger because it is viewed alongside objects on the horizon such as buildings and trees.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Unlike hotels in cities, resort properties are also bigger — with sometimes thousands of rooms — allowing them to spread the cost of doing business across more customers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Chapman pointed out that he had a bigger vehicle for making a difference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Charlie remarked that in a bigger school with at least nineteen pupils, you’d have two teams for real baseball, and an umpire.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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It was the biggest box-office debut for a non-music documentary since Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” in 2004.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
If that's not enough, on Saturday she has her biggest gig yet when she'll be playing tracks like No Bad Vibes and Someday in front of a home crowd in Dublin.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Read: Treasury yields log biggest drop since the 2023 banking crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
One of the biggest mysteries surrounding peri-implantitis has been its similarity to periodontitis, the gum disease that develops around natural teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
“And Oceania is the biggest region in the world. We’re part of that. We’ve got big stories.”
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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I've bigged myself up about doing an Ironman, but now I'm starting to regret that!
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
“This agreement has been bigged up as something that will be a solution to the world’s food shortage, and it is just not,” said Tracey Allen, an agricultural commodities strategist at JPMorgan Chase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Brendan was never as good as people bigged him up to me.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2015
Across the world in Los Angeles, the Compton Cricket Club is bigged in by Cloth's Bullets – a song, like the CCC itself, dedicated to fighting homelessness and gang culture with civility and dignity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
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From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
"Without bigging myself up, people have been knighted for less than that."
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
Perhaps the city is not as forward about bigging itself up as somewhere like Manchester.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024
Another massive performance and others aside from Sinfield might be bigging him up.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
GP I really don’t want it to sound like I’m bigging myself up.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
"About this bit bourock, your honour," answered the undaunted Edie; "I mind the bigging o't."
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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