expanding

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At one point, the tank began bulging, and “it got to a point where it does what we call a BLEVE, which is a ‘boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion,’” Covey said Friday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Relics from the pre-bounce phase — such as smaller black holes — could survive the transition and reappear in our expanding universe.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

While expanding access to healthy food is a worthy goal, I fear that these new rules could have the opposite effect for people who are enrolled in SNAP.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

Cummins is expanding its power-generation capacity by 57% to 55 gigawatts per year, Rumsey says.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson