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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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Honeywell Aerospace plans 6% to 8% annual sales growth and margin expansion, which should lead to low-double-digit earnings growth.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Microfinance’s breakneck expansion in Cambodia in the early 2010s coincided with a government push to formalize land ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

Investors largely disregarded SK Hynix’s long-term wafer capacity expansion, as the 2034 timeline is distant.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

If the red shift is due to the expansion of the universe, very different red shifts imply very different distances.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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