expansion
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The MoJ said: "Anyone who is released faces the toughest-ever controls on their movements, including world-first restriction zones and the largest expansion of electronic tagging, with victims having a say in their perpetrators' licence conditions."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Big picture: The economy is still growing steadily after six years of expansion — even stubborn inflation hasn’t been able to slow it down much.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Retail trade decreased in July, largely offsetting an expansion the month before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The state had paused expansion of its Marine Protected Areas as officials evaluated the effectiveness of management practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Their employment represented an expansion of the very idea of who had the right to enlist in the country’s scientific workforce.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Ahead of Tesla’s event, rivals announced their own expansions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Looking forward, Qi said, "We are going to explore more satellite data and look for better understanding of the expansions."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
This last rule is perhaps the most important; it would prevent the court from providing under-the-radar expansions of the law as it tried to do in the aftermath of Callais.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
“These changes and expansions give even more people a place for their music to be respected, heard and evaluated,” the Recording Academy’s Harvey Mason Jr. said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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