size up
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Amazon’s Rufus provides 30- and 90-day price tracking, so customers can quickly size up the current offer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
The measure is a helpful way to easily size up housing costs, but it isn’t perfectly applicable to the real world.
From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025
These are yardstick games because the Rams and Chargers can size up their chances against top-shelf competition — and because losing would feel to them like a ruler rapping across the knuckles.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
Payments are fixed by property size, up to a maximum of four bedrooms, and are subject to a nationwide cap that limits claims in several parts of London.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
I could size up a horse by the time I was eight, and a good thing too.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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