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“Historically Asian investors have been big supporters of France, as for them the potential universe of European government bonds is Germany and France.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We're very much hoping that it's going to be a really, really big spectacular," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Burrell said Leslie has been a big help during her career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Plus: Crypto blew its big moment and now everyone is pointing fingers, and how Harley-Davidson became a tariff punching bag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Three bedrooms. A big kitchen. Even a fancy barn and pasture for Midnight and Belle.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
That's down from almost a quarter in 2010, with bigger drops in rural areas, but it is up from a pre-pandemic low of 13% in 2019-20.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“We are here in 2026 and it’s not a little more prevalent. It can be an aspiration to any kid, even one of my students, that bigger things are possible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
These concerns, though real, miss the bigger, more important story about how to educate students for a world abundant with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Roughly 10 years ago, Wollenweber said, the company figured out it could sell new and bigger systems to rapidly growing cloud businesses of the Big Tech companies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
This was a gift on her part—probably a sign that she felt sorry for him—because Mom and Dad’s bathroom was bigger and nicer than the one between his and Katherine’s rooms.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
China is the biggest market for children’s smartwatches, making up 58% of global sales in the first half of the year, according to the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Eckert speaks slowly and with an intense gaze when asked to reflect on being at the centre of one of the biggest controversies in English football history.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Artificial intelligence is expected to be a major topic as the world’s two biggest economies jostle for leadership in the burgeoning technology.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Two years ago, the biggest record labels took artificial intelligence music generators to court for copyright infringement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
And if I can’t fix the biggest part of this, then is there even a point to this process?
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
I've suddenly got the fear we've bigged this up too much.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
"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
And they hae banished him, Brown Adam, The flower o' a' his kin; And he's bigged a hour in gude green-wood Atween his ladye and him.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Sir Walter Scott
The coach of Ireland bigging up an Ireland wing?
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
Mr. Oldbuck's "ecstatic description" of the Roman camp with its praetorium was spoilt by Edie Ochiltree's disastrous interruption "Praetorian here, praetorian there, I mind the bigging o't."
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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