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Halloween has become one of the UK's biggest seasonal celebrations, with spending on costumes, decorations and themed events continuing to grow.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

You have to wonder if he’ll lose a bit of the arrogance, if the space between Watters’ segments and the network’s chosen tack will grow even wider.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Muscles use it to contract, cells need it to grow and repair themselves, and countless biological processes depend on a steady supply.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

And the interest on your balance ensures that even if you stop making purchases, your debt will grow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Since the cutback in rations, I see a difference. They grow sleepy, they have trouble concentrating. . . .”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Aged 24, she was diagnosed with endometriosis - a condition that affects one in 10 women, where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows outside of the uterus.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Over five books, it grows into a sprawling story of war, power and morally ambiguous immortals, in a formula that leaves its audience of mostly young women swooning.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Cat’s claw is a woody vine that grows in the Amazon forest and other tropical areas of Central and South America, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Each year he grows a year younger, so that after 20 years of life he resembles a man of 50, and after 50 years a man of 20.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

An accident—say from a moose attack or the like—perhaps because there is more time to dwell upon it, does not lessen, but in some ways grows, fills out.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

In the churches where I grew up, the Proverbs 31 woman got a great deal of airtime.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

These mergers would produce increasingly massive black holes at the centers of the newly formed galaxies, potentially helping explain how some grew to enormous sizes so soon after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

This duo grew up together, lived together and played together for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Once they reconnected, though, the asks only grew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Inside the stainless-steel pot, blue corn powder was amassing into tiny balls that grew into dense lumps.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

I hadn’t grown up in a household where paying someone else to do the grocery shopping was a particularly imaginable expense.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

To answer that question, researchers led by doctoral student Sabita Chourasia used genetic engineering to remove MTCH2 from human cells grown in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

"Water levels in the lake have gone down which meant the blue-green algae has grown even more than it has done in the previous years," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

In a Chinese-language press release, McDonald’s said it had grown in lockstep with the region, “witnessing Xinjiang’s prosperity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In his first week at Shady Glen, the boy had grown used to feeling like the gum stuck under everyone’s shoe, most of all Mrs. Winston’s.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The region’s training programs are still able to keep up with demand from companies and workers, said CEO Lisa Patt-McDaniel, but that may change if local industry keeps growing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Indeed, the biggest U.S. companies have recently been growing earnings at a breakneck pace, and Wall Street expects results should continue to dazzle investors in 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

The results suggest that other distant galaxies may contain multiple growing black holes that have gone undetected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Now, he sees the growing popularity of genres such as amapiano - a popular South African house music subgenre - as an opportunity to broaden the scene.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

An image was growing in his mind of what he might see when the door slid back.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix