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If he had connected an inch further up the bat with the first ball of the final over he would have had a six and Hampshire would have needed nine more runs from five deliveries.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Bumblebees may be small, measuring only about an inch long, but they play an enormous role in global agriculture.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

But they also store less energy per cubic inch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The timers’ skittishness suggests that their optimism is a mile wide but only an inch deep.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

But that is hard to tell when you first wake up and see dozens of bugs covering every inch of your comforter.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Below 40 cm, or around 16 inches, freight shipping is typically suspended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

When it’s almost time for the plant to open, the spadix — a conic protrusion from inside the plant — emerges and accelerates in growth, climbing up to six inches per day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The plans for that building called for exterior walls above a certain height to be 8 inches thick, but Domani approved walls that were 6 inches thick, according to a violation notice from the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The soil below two inches should be unharmed, Adams said, so long as new compost is set and plants are watered plentifully, which will promote natural biological cycles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Two or three times when the train stopped, the door was slid open a few inches and a pail of water passed in.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

A separate price gauge known as the core rate, which strips out energy, inched up 0.1%.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Elevated mortgage rates have been keeping buyers on the sidelines for years, but rates have inched down from a year earlier, and are well below a peak of nearly 8% in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate loan inched up this week to 6.49%, adding to the affordability crunch many prospective home buyers are feeling.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Average return on Japanese household financial assets has inched up from 1% to 1.7%, he says.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

As we inched along the counter, there were endless repetitions of questions, endless consulting of papers, endless coming and going of officials.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Rescue teams from seven countries are inching towards a man who survived the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

“I like that we’re inching it forward just a little bit. ‘Game of Thrones’ in 2026,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

His 18 colleagues in the leadership of the Fed and the 11 other voting members of the rate-setting committee appear to be inching close to rate hikes, to battle persistent inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 14, 2026

Then he blinked, and the entire greenhouse began to glimmer with golden threads of light, swirling and shifting and moving with the slow growth of the trees, the upward inching of flowers.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee