expansion
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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
The Convention Center expansion has already attracted 18 event contracts, and the city is negotiating more than 100 with large convention holders, said Doanne Liu, head of the city’s Tourism Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
During this period, Megaspeed went through "a critical period of corporate restructuring and regional expansion", and her corporate relationships raised questions about whether "Megaspeed's Singaporean identity is genuine or effectively Chinese-controlled", according to C4ADS.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
He expects Boyd to compound earnings through disciplined store growth, market share gains and margin expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
In an October 2025 report, the Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated program expansions cost the general fund $10 billion annually, “more than double the initial estimates.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
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
Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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