expansion
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Some signs are easy to spot, like construction on the $2.6-billion expansion of the Convention Center and the long-delayed cleaning of buildings dubbed Graffiti Towers, which had become an embarrassing symbol of neglect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
They have beaten just one currently ranked team, Oregon at 13th, and given the expansion of the Big Ten have drawn a very soft conference schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
During this period, Megaspeed went through "a critical period of corporate restructuring and regional expansion", and her corporate relationships raised questions about whether "Megaspeed's Singaporean identity is genuine or effectively Chinese-controlled", according to C4ADS.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
He expects Boyd to compound earnings through disciplined store growth, market share gains and margin expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“It was in the Africanus Extreme expansion deck.”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
What fully converted data centers lack, however, is a continuous flow of newly mined bitcoin to fund their expansions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Their goal is to investigate the earliest expansions of modern humans across Europe, including how these populations interacted with carnivores in places where bones and other organic remains are scarce.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
The private sector has added only about 61,000 jobs a month since November 2023, far below the 155,000 average during the 12 economic expansions between the end of World War II and the 2020 pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
While new hospitals offer longer-term growth opportunities, expansions of existing hospitals and daycare facilities could provide more immediate opportunities to maximize returns from existing assets, she adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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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