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I've taken a lot from that and I feel it will be a big part of how I want to approach things moving forward as a leader of this team.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Markets have been allergic to cash outflows in recent months amid concern about returns on hypsercalers’ big investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Prescription-drug coverage, including for GLP-1s for weight loss, is a big reason for rising healthcare costs, employers said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Tejon Pass isn’t nearly as tall as its grander sister mountain ranges, but no one has to haul a big rig loaded up with peaches over Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
My parents added flimsy privacy walls, cutting a big room in twos or threes, each the size of a walk-in closet.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"The longer you leave it, the more fuel there is to burn, so the fire is naturally going to be bigger and harder to extinguish," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then came an even bigger hurdle: the actual country they were living in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Rapidly improving AI capabilities are resulting in software products that are constantly evolving, making pricing software an even bigger challenge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then there’s a much bigger question, which my colleague Bill Shaikin explored in 2022: Is the gondola phase one of a plan to develop stadium property into some kind of Dodgertown commercial extravaganza?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Because he was bigger and stronger, she decided to offer him pieces of her chocolate.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Her biggest challenge will be finding time to watch her two daughters perform in two sports in her new job serving as region director for the Eagle Rock/Highland Park Network.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
And which projects offer the biggest bang for the buck?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
After all that, a lawsuit from the California state attorney general to block the deal didn’t seem like the biggest hurdle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Paradigm Peptides case is the biggest to rock the industry, an unregulated market which has exploded into the mainstream over the past 18 months.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
"They're the biggest that have ever crossed from Africa to Spain," the lion keeper said.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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"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
This album has been bigged up by professional critics over the age of 50, but they are all closet fans.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2020
Brendan was never as good as people bigged him up to me.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2015
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 Bates, Katherine Lee
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
That said, this England group is always bigging each other up so it is hard to know.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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 has mair sense than to ca' anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir