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Recent Examples of enlargement
Higher doses can cause hair loss (along with hair growth on the face and other areas many women would probably find undesirable), clitoral enlargement, acne and vocal changes that can be permanent.
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Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Some critics would come to call its sharp enlargement of executive authority the imperial presidency.
—Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
This test, sometimes along with a digital rectal exam, is used to screen for cancer or enlargement of the prostate, according to Caamano.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Russia should face the consequences of its misguided policies, not reap the rewards of territorial enlargement.
—Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
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Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Some critics would come to call its sharp enlargement of executive authority the imperial presidency.
—Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
This test, sometimes along with a digital rectal exam, is used to screen for cancer or enlargement of the prostate, according to Caamano.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Russia should face the consequences of its misguided policies, not reap the rewards of territorial enlargement.
—Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlargement
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The first vote will be on advancing an amendment to the SAVE America Act, which would require photo ID to cast a vote.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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There were even more photos and videos of Swift and Kelce together.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
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The centerpiece of the expansion, which was led by the architects Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, in collaboration with the firm Cooper Robertson, is an atrium that snaps right onto the side of the flagship building.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Maryland case often is cited as justification for an expansion of DNA collection.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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This is the title of the iconic Man Ray photograph from 1924 of Kiki de Montparnasse, with the f-holes of a violin collaged onto her back.—
Laura Brown,
Artforum,
25 Mar. 2026
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Defense lawyers noted Monday, for example, that two 9-mm spent shell casings seen in a photograph under the arm of Moïse’s bullet-riddled body on the floor next to his bed could have been fired from pistols on which the FBI failed to conduct ballistics testing.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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Weather conditions will be favorable for rapid fire growth.—
Joe Ruch,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Its population was not quite 6,000 in 2010, was around 11,500 in 2020 and now is nearly 22,000, growth that caused schools to burst at the seams.—
Noah Daly,
Idaho Statesman,
30 Mar. 2026
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Having an enormous blowup has never kept Taylor and Dakota from hooking up before.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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The pinball blowup occurred at a moment when trans people face an increasingly hostile environment in the United States, particularly in sports.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC news,
31 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the text urges all parties to refrain from further escalation and return to the path of diplomacy.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Mar. 2026
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With the conflict having disrupted much of the world's oil supplies, markets remain highly sensitive to any headline suggesting either escalation or diplomacy.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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The 360-degree lens captures everything around the drone at 8K/60fps in HDR, with stills up to 120 megapixels – footage that can be exported straight or reframed entirely in post-production.—
Omar Kardoudi
March 27,
New Atlas,
27 Mar. 2026
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From 1964 portrait sessions to The Supremes publicity stills in ‘66, the singer’s shapely ‘do often delicately framed her wispy lashes.—
Essence,
Essence,
26 Mar. 2026
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The conflict in the Middle East has weighed on gold prices, with surging oil and gas prices raising expectations of an inflation spike across economies that will lead to a bout of interest rate hikes.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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Investors are now bracing for the war to last for some time, which would likely set off inflation in global markets and could stunt Asia's economic growth.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Enlargement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlargement. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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