expansion
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It subsequently went into gradual decline under the ownership of the American group General Motors, which long restricted its international expansion to avoid competition with other GM subsidiaries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
And it’s pretty tough to have a margin expansion goal, set targets and manage and measure that when you don’t have a supply-chain finance person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mark Walter’s sale of the Lakers, which valued the organization at $12.5 billion, was reportedly motivated by the spiraling price for an NBA expansion team in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"We believe growth is progress – leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being," he wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
However, that translates into an average expansion of only 8 miles per year, a trivial feat for a hunter-gatherer likely to cover that distance even within a single day’s normal foraging.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
“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
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
For campaigners, the only solution is to fly less and limit airport expansions until planes can run on genuinely renewable fuel, like electricity or possibly hydrogen.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Long before anyone began manufacturing guns and steel, others of those same factors had led to the expansions of some non-European peoples, as we shall see in later chapters.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing expansion
The American Civil War
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