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“We’re not the big guys, so they don’t see the value in us getting those discounts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
His blemish was missing out on the really big score that would have made it impossible for the selectors to leave him out when Bethell returns.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Founders have long put in punishing hours in the name of building the next big thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Gold also climbed on the week, although its rally wasn’t nearly as big as bitcoin’s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
But for now, she is just a little girl with a big imagination, stepping through the grass in the hot, humid air.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
It has also said mayors will get a "bigger say" over how housing funding is spent in their area, with the government directing national agency Homes England to focus on local mayors' priorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The allegations in these indictments apparently are that they went beyond exaggerating the threats and actually supported these organizations to make them bigger threats so they could then monitor them or do whatever they did.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
Clavicular said he is in negotiations regarding “some bigger brand deals” after attending this summer’s Cannes Lions advertising-industry conference, but declined to provide more information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But the NFL has a more robust revenue-sharing system than MLB, and a bigger national TV contract to share.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Every time I got close to one of the cranky old sisters, she puffed up ten times bigger than she actually was and started squawking and pecking.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Could Fleming, now with one of the biggest jobs in coaching, not have been part of a month-long series against Pakistan?
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The Ebola virus has spread across Democratic Republic of Congo at a frightening speed and one of the authorities' biggest fears is that it reaches the teeming capital of Kinshasa.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The charcoal-grilled hanger steak, which Pettingell said is sourced from natural beef ranchers, is by far the biggest cost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Fury and Joshua had been expected to meet in November in one of the biggest fights in British boxing history.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Girl, I’m the biggest taxpayer in Sycamore Township and maybe Parke County, and I get the least for my money. Who are you supposed to be?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
I've bigged myself up about doing an Ironman, but now I'm starting to regret that!
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
"We bigged him up before kick off for his technical abilities, and he has just shown them again here. This guy is an outstanding player."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
“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
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
He has bigged a bower beside the thorn, He has fenced it up wi' stane, And there within the Elmond wood, They twa has dwelt their lane.
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
Newey effectively worked only three days a week, Horner would say, bigging up the roles of Wache and the technical leadership team around him, especially head of aerodynamics Enrico Balbo.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025
"Eddie's been bigging me up, so I had to show what I'm about," said Bristol's Ayton, a flawless 21-0 as an amateur.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
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
He's thinking upon naething, like mony mighty men: A wee thing mak's us think, a sma' thing mak's us stare,— There are mair folk than him bigging castles in the air.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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