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The unemployment rate could also inch up to 4.4% from the current 4.1%, it said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, “dark energy” seems to permeate every square inch of space, pushing outward and accelerating the universe’s expansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Pushing through the glass double doors, I found every inch of the restaurant pulsating with some kind of sensory experience.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Christopher clambered up onto the sill and, inch by inch, lifted the window higher.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

And in a league hard-wired to drag down any team that inches too far ahead, anyone who resists the gravitational pull toward mediocrity has figured out how to beat the system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Proximity to Lake Michigan creates long, frigid winters with an average of 75 inches of snow.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

“What we’re observing is actually tides that are ... 4 to 6 inches above predicted. And that’s quite a bit,” said Jeremy Smith, a coastal engineer with the California Coastal Commission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

In Humboldt County’s North Spit, near Eureka, tides were 9 inches higher than forecast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Excitedly he drew out a pencil and drew a line along the floor thirty inches from the back wall.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The official manufacturing purchasing managers index inched higher to 49.8 in August from 49.2 in July, said the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Revenue inched up 1% to $6.91 billion compared to the year-ago period, when Paramount was controlled by media heiress Shari Redstone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The savings rate inched down to 2.7% in June, marking the lowest level in four years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Deaths were more than double that at 1.6 million, while the fertility rate edged down 0.01 percentage points to 1.14 although marriages inched higher, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry numbers showed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

I tossed a nervous look back, then inched forward to peer over the edge.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

With them inching closer to the city, Dezhyna and her parents are again thinking about whether they should flee to refuge, far from her beloved Izyum.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The latest flare-ups in hostilities are boosting crude futures prices, which were inching toward $80 a barrel Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The big change this year is that, previously, Russia was inching forward along almost the entire more than 700-mile front line, or at least in several sectors at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

That number is now inching closer to the billion mark with Jio alone amassing 525 million of those subscribers.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

We move in tiny bits, cell by cell, roots inching farther, buds nudged into the sunlight.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate