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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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They have beaten just one currently ranked team, Oregon at 13th, and given the expansion of the Big Ten have drawn a very soft conference schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

But that would come with a chunky expansion of the amount of further education, training, health support and likely jobs subsidised by the taxpayer too.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Some signs are easy to spot, like construction on the $2.6-billion expansion of the Convention Center and the long-delayed cleaning of buildings dubbed Graffiti Towers, which had become an embarrassing symbol of neglect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Thailand’s third-quarter GDP data on Monday are expected to show growth accelerated after a period of lackluster expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion.

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

By contrast, the U.S. added around 150,000 or more new jobs a month during all previous economic expansions since World War II.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

What fully converted data centers lack, however, is a continuous flow of newly mined bitcoin to fund their expansions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Their goal is to investigate the earliest expansions of modern humans across Europe, including how these populations interacted with carnivores in places where bones and other organic remains are scarce.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

New store openings, expansions and relocations have helped boost the company’s direct retail sales across its 142 boutiques this year, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Southwest, the Americas lack examples of large-scale language expansions widely accepted by linguists.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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