big business

Example Sentences

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The look became big business at Macy’s, J.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“We kept talking about these tropes from ‘80s movies of slobs versus snobs,” and how it mirrored the mom-and-pop shop versus big business dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Yet credit-card interest is big business, Pierce and other researchers wrote.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

The company, which makes transformers and switches and does big business with data centers, could benefit from booming energy demand tied to AI.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Astronauts were big business, particularly since American Alan Shepard had been launched into space on May 5, 1961, three weeks after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson