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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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She’s coming off the bench behind Nneka Ogwumike and Dearica Hamby for the Sparks, who are a modest 6-6 after wins this week over the expansion Portland Fire and the struggling Seattle Storm.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

JR: The expansion definitely took a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch and poured soapy water in it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Helix adds another major private-capital bet on the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The current standard model of cosmology, known as ΛCDM, successfully explains many large-scale features of the universe, including its expansion and the distribution of galaxies.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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