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Moore is among a number of people who have set up nonprofits and other groups to sway public opinion, and the big man’s opinion, in innovative ways.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
I would admit that having money tends to make you a big know-it-all or arrogant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Then I just tried to stay patient and recover from this big effort.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
But "the big question is whether or not we will have a burnt taste during the wine making", Guibergia told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
I keep close, grateful Father is a big, strong, unsmiling man.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
As companies cram more-powerful graphics chips into data centers, moving information quickly between those processors is becoming a bigger challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I’ve heard officials say, ‘We had data centers before,’ And I’m like, ‘Landover would be bigger than any of the others.’
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Unlike Lavoie, some may choose to hold onto their shares altogether in the hope of bigger gains later.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“This collaboration creates a new bridge between the stories we tell and the creativity they inspire, giving creators a bigger stage to share what they’ve made, and audiences more to discover on Disney+ every day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
For Kabra, though, who outlined his thoughts in a note to clients Thursday, “the biggest deleveraging phase in Korean equities is nearly complete.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
His biggest moment of the series came Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Giant seahorse find 'one of biggest ever recorded'
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Irish airline Ryanair is Europe's biggest carrier by passenger numbers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Before he could panic, he picked the biggest one, closest to the moon.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
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
O bigged hae they a bigly bour, Fast by the roaring strand; And there was mair mirth in the ladyes' bour, Nor in a' their father's land.
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
"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
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
No," said Argyll, "it was in Doom, the place of a small landowner, Lamond, whose castle—it is but a ramshackle old bigging now—you may have noticed on your left as you rode round.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
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