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Two days later, satellite imagery shows the slick had doubled in size and was spreading north-west through the strait towards Qeshm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The memo includes several other directives aimed at improving submarine maintenance and repair and driving foreign investment into the U.S. shipbuilding sector as the Navy tries to increase the size of its fleet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tunisian demographer Hassen Kassar said Tunisia's fertility drop was primarily the result of deep social changes, including the "modernisation of families" and urbanisation, which have reduced family size.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
In 1871, one massive flock in Wisconsin nested more than 850 square miles — almost twice the size of the city of L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
We rounded a corner, and the corridor opened up into a gigantic circular room the size of the auditorium at the Academy.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
I would wander in with my perfectly sized tote, allow whatever charmed me to determine dinner and wait for the ingredients to organize themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Generously sized and steered toward realism, the director’s take on Odysseus is epically satisfying, even if it skimps on the character’s ego and lust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Mitchell had ordered a similarly sized expansion in 2018 that cost $727,000, company President Tim Zimmerman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Nvidia just folded the whole business segment into a new “edge computing” line where it cannot be sized on its own.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
It took some inspired deductions by the astronomer William Herschel to work out that they were nowhere near planet sized but much smaller.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Beyond staying true to the characters and the time period, Eyrich and Marsh had to consider a few practical elements: the disparities in vintage sizing, for one, plus the horror of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Herring is also more descriptive about sizing for dresses, tops and other items, noting if they tend to be oversize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
He looked around the apartment as if he were sizing it up for sale.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
