scale
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That his residency now dwarfs, in sheer scale, the fight-night masculinity the same building helped crown is not a coincidence I am willing to let pass quietly.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
"We never would have thought the flood could reach such a scale," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
A giant scale model of Mars on display at Peel Cathedral for a Mars Society event.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“The scale is so much bigger than we’ve seen in more traditional markets.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The front door of the house opened, and Anya snatched the scale from Ivan.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
But not every work needs to be so grandly scaled to have an impact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
It said the plans had been scaled back and it hoped the parade would be allowed along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is back to studying the universe with two of its three science instruments after plans to raise the spacecraft into a higher orbit were scaled back.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“In a market where almost every scaled operator is sold out, Meta is a very rare potential merchant seller of surplus capacity,” Mahaney wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
I once scaled a four-story building in less than five seconds.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Charleson playing Hamlet, scaling the Everest for actors, reminded me of David Bowie making “Blackstar” as he was dying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Morgan analysts said in a client note last month, is the “largest bottleneck” keeping the industry from scaling.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
"We also have to be willing to slow down or withhold further scaling when our confidence in safety is not sufficient," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Great CIOs are phenomenal at scaling, and what everyone wants right now is scale out of AI,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I unhooked the incriminating bucktail jig from the dish and started scaling down the rain gutter.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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