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expansible

[ik-span-suh-buhl] / ɪkˈspæn sə bəl /


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However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The world market is indefinitely expansible, and is always expanding; and commercial experience shows that the rapid expansion of the overseas trade of one country does not preclude the expansion of trade of other countries.

From Morals of Economic Internationalism by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

Of the founders of the lasting and expansible theories of natural science, it may be said, that "thoughts beyond their thoughts to those high bards were given."

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

It is a fixed quantity; the appetite is indefinitely expansible.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

This is why he insisted that we understand the policy implications of the differences between tangible property and ideas, which "like fire" are "expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point."

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle




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