expansion
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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
Not only did William help oversee a massive expansion of Army code breaking, but he also played a key role in several high-level Allied missions.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Vast expansions in electricity, telecommunications and production promised to connect the country and ease the tedious work of cooking, washing and cleaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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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