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Military helicopters backed by tractors on the ground hauled water Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day wildfire, which mushroomed in size since breaking out two days earlier in a hard-to-access nature reserve.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Still, they considered the size and timing of the effect both impressive and surprising.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The peninsula covers about 110 square miles — roughly five times the size of Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In a stable climate, glaciers would be expected to remain more or less the same size over the long-term.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Japan has already increased the size of its army by the time Shingo visits the Philippines.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Many retirees take systematic monthly distributions sized to cover the year’s RMD, and if that’s you and you’re eight months in, roughly two-thirds of your RMD is already gone.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
I said it before and I’ll say it again: More U.S. hotels should have beach-towel sized bath towels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Customers will deploy 10s or 100s in a single project, “basically creating a power-plant sized battery” that can store power and supply the grid when energy is expensive, or directly serve facilities like data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Sheet AL102 had a hole perfectly sized for Airlock 1.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
First introduced in 1988, the Omega Speedmaster Reduced took the Speedmaster Professional — which comes in a sizable 42mm case sizing — and slimmed it down to a chill 39mm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 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
Meanwhile, sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
I could see that they were sizing him up, trying to figure out whether he was some sort of opinionated outsider or in fact had something of value to offer.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
