expansion
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Big picture: The economy is still growing steadily after six years of expansion — even stubborn inflation hasn’t been able to slow it down much.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Gross domestic product was unchanged from the month before in July, snapping three straight months of expansion that included upwardly revised growth of 0.4% in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The expansion of mobile network infrastructure has faced the challenge of strict planning laws and, in recent years, frequent arson attacks linked to online conspiracy theories.
From BBC ● 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
“You know what? I think I’m going to run over to Formann’s. I heard they did an expansion last year and the store runs the whole block now.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“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
Aggressive expansions typically come with plenty of risk: an immediate strain on resources, profit instability, and possibly outgrowing the existing business model.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 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
We already discussed such historical expansions in Chapters 16 and 17 for the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, and other East Asian language families.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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