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"Well, you'd be defying gravity and logic if you said it wasn't a big problem," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
What are big questions in final two days of Scottish transfer window?
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
One big factor working in Europe’s favor may be the weather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The big reveal came Wednesday on “Good Morning America,” with the full celebrity cast sitting alongside their pro partners and speaking with “DWTS” co-hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
I have her big brown eyes, small frame, and mahogany complexion.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In theory, the two years that have elapsed since then should have made the defender bigger and stronger.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
But I think what I’m building is the foundation of a bigger thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Step 2, 3 and 4 are bigger ones:
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
But the data on crime shows there’s something bigger at stake in the Flock camera debate than discomfort with being watched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mama and Papa had bigger things on their minds.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
US President Donald Trump has described the pact announced Friday as "the biggest oil deal in world history."
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Just four players remain from the starting eleven and substitutes from the night they beat Inter Milan in Istanbul to win the continent's biggest club prize.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Mark Fischbach, a filmmaker and YouTube personality with nearly 40 million subscribers, had become the GoPro’s biggest shareholder after amassing an 8.5% stake in the company.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“We are removing layers, simplifying team structures, refining our global location strategy, and focusing our people and investments against the biggest opportunities ahead of us,” Khosrowshahi said in his letter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“You’re smack-dab in the middle of the biggest hurricane ever to hit here. Maybe the biggest to hit the United States.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
I've suddenly got the fear we've bigged this up too much.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
“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 Sir Walter Scott
"My first response was embarrassment because I'm not one for bigging myself up," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
"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
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
Mr. Oldbuck's "ecstatic description" of the Roman camp with its praetorium was spoilt by Edie Ochiltree's disastrous interruption "Praetorian here, praetorian there, I mind the bigging o't."
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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