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Recent Examples of ancillary
Costco is taking a new step in an ancillary business that has traditionally been a way to drive in-store foot traffic to on-site warehouses and foster membership loyalty — cheap gasoline.
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Paulina Likos, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
The project is part of former mayor Eric Adams’s City of Yes, which legalized ancillary dwelling units.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Mar. 2026
Tinygiant is leading theatrical distribution, with O-Scope handling ancillary markets.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2026
The space in the complex formerly known as the Warner Center includes 72,000 square feet of production offices and ancillary space.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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Paulina Likos, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
The project is part of former mayor Eric Adams’s City of Yes, which legalized ancillary dwelling units.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Mar. 2026
Tinygiant is leading theatrical distribution, with O-Scope handling ancillary markets.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2026
The space in the complex formerly known as the Warner Center includes 72,000 square feet of production offices and ancillary space.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
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RevMed said its daily pill, daraxonrasib, met all primary and secondary endpoints in a trial of people whose cancer had already progressed on another treatment.—
Angelica Peebles,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2026
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And while Faanes delves into the new faces on the defense, finding the right pairings with the secondary’s returnees, the linebacker position is yet again a strength.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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VIPs expect a private chef, a driver to take them back and forth to the festival grounds or auxiliary events, private security, IV drips provided at home, an on-call cleaner and private tennis or pickleball lessons.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Next, three small 11-foot-wide auxiliary parachutes, known as pilot chutes, will be used at about 9,500 feet to ultimately make way for the release of the final three main parachutes at 6,000 feet.—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The previously unreported messages establish that the congressman propositioned a subordinate years before his 2024 affair with Santos-Aviles, who later died by suicide.—
Bayliss Wagner,
San Antonio Express-News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Everything should be subordinate to a general loveliness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Since 2015, the company has run subsidiary arm Alcon Television Group, which is currently in post production on Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099 set for 2027.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Kapoor, who formerly lived in a waterfront estate in the Cocoplum neighborhood of Coral Gables, made his first appearance in Miami federal court on Friday afternoon to face charges stemming from his role as the chief executive officer of Location Ventures and its subsidiary URBIN.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
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In 2025, an international jury awarded SLA the Rosa Barba Prize, one of landscape architecture’s most coveted honors, despite the project’s modest scale and peripheral address.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mobile health clinics offer a powerful solution and should be integrated into core health-system strategy, not treated as peripheral outreach.—
Crystal Cene,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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That duo helped carry Purdue to the national title game two years ago in a floor-spacing supplementary role around Edey.—
Christian Babcock,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The essential supplementary component arrived in the person of Frank Robinson.—
Raymond Daniel Burke,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Mar. 2026
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With the latest round of supplemental additions (Joe Flacco, Kyle Duggar and Ja’Sir Taylor) signed, here’s my view of the Bengals’ spectrum of needs to wants at specific positions and the reason why.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The deficit will lead the department to seek supplemental funding from state lawmakers.—
Katheryn Houghton,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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Moreover, technology profits are expected to grow 45% this year, yet the sector has seen only a marginal gain this year.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2026
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For companies with binding clean energy commitments, this is not a marginal concern.—
Pandu Sjahrir,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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