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Sure, the production has all the paraphernalia a major pop tour - big sets, plumes of smoke, inspired choreography - but there are long stretches where it's just Grande on stage with her band.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Still, it illustrates the big opportunities for businesses that are willing to circumvent international sanctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The cost of computer-related technology typically found in consumer products such as laptops, cell phones and routers has never been a big and growing part of household budgets — until now.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
“It’s a big one,” manager Dave Roberts said of the series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
There were twenty cook stations, each as big as his entire kitchen.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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It is GM, they say, that is the bigger overall contributor to the U.S. workforce, when factoring in salaried employees as well as hourly workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I’ll be a bigger hero than you ever were!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
One unquestionable element is its success in raising the low estimation of Green Lantern created by a particularly clumsy movie, simply by imagining possibilities in much bigger terms.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Are your two advisers just trying to keep your money in stocks so they can increase your nest egg and profit off bigger management fees?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Fitzgerald, a boy younger but much bigger than me, was once challenged to run into The Woods and he got attacked by mad squirrels.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The biggest spenders are those in their 60s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The biggest obstacles to President Trump’s order on vaccines may be the logistical challenges it poses for parents, health providers and drugmakers in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
In the biggest races in the sport, such as three-week Grand Tour the Tour de France, some stages take place on fully closed roads, but many World Tour events use a 'rolling roadblock'.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The investment firm shifted away from some of the market’s biggest semiconductor winners in the second quarter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
We took it to the beach at night, and he aimed up at the biggest dot of light in the sky.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
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
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"Without bigging myself up, people have been knighted for less than that."
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
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 Neil Munro