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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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The MoJ said: "Anyone who is released faces the toughest-ever controls on their movements, including world-first restriction zones and the largest expansion of electronic tagging, with victims having a say in their perpetrators' licence conditions."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The U.S. economy has appeared solid, with its recent signs of continued expansion supporting junk bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Retail trade decreased in July, largely offsetting an expansion the month before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The state had paused expansion of its Marine Protected Areas as officials evaluated the effectiveness of management practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Supporters of the moratorium effort can be forgiven for being so naïve,” Mauer suggests, “since the prison expansion that was about to take place was unprecedented in human history.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“The implications for copper supply are significant” and support premiums increasingly being assigned to some operating mines, brownfield expansions and “derisked” development assets, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ahead of Tesla’s event, rivals announced their own expansions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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

Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production.

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




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