expansion
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Annual attendance at the Louvre is approaching 10 million—more than twice the number the museum anticipated in its late-20th-century expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
The Wende Museum of the Cold War announced on Saturday that it plans to build a $16-million expansion in Hawthorne.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
"The winners will likely be the projects that are low-cost, flexible, and geopolitically secure, rather than massive expansion for expansion’s sake," he added.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
Canada is now eyeing a major expansion of its military, with plans for a total of 85,500 regular service members and a mobilisation force of up to 300,000 reservists.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
In that titanic cosmic explosion, the universe began an expansion which has never ceased.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing expansion
The American Civil War
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Economics
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