variants
or distentions
as in inflations
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expansions
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Meanwhile, many museums are in serious financial straits, reckoning with the fiscal burden of optimistic expansions and unanticipated increases in operating costs.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026 -
The global SiC market is currently dominated by a small number of producers, including Wolfspeed, Coherent, and STMicroelectronics, all of which have announced multi-billion-dollar capacity expansions in recent years.—
Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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“Distensions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distensions. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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