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Recent Examples of enlargement
Russia should face the consequences of its misguided policies, not reap the rewards of territorial enlargement.
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Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
This enlargement would have allowed these ancient creatures to coordinate the complex sensory and motor information involved in powered movement.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial, as uncontrolled diabetes can lead to cataracts, liver enlargement, urinary tract infections, seizures, kidney failure and ketoacidosis.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
So where does the magic of this 10x soundstage enlargement happen?
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
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Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
This enlargement would have allowed these ancient creatures to coordinate the complex sensory and motor information involved in powered movement.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial, as uncontrolled diabetes can lead to cataracts, liver enlargement, urinary tract infections, seizures, kidney failure and ketoacidosis.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
So where does the magic of this 10x soundstage enlargement happen?
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlargement
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The comment appeared to be drawing attention to the fact that Colton starred on and dated women on both The Bachelorette and The Bachelor before later coming out as gay in 2021 after the reality star said he was being blackmailed by an individual who had threatened to release a photo of him.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Jan. 2026
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In photos from the set, Law, 53, who will star as Siegfried Fischbacher, was seen sporting a platinum blonde mullet, oversized aviators and a leather jacket.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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The federal government pays 90% of the costs of Idaho’s Medicaid expansion, which as of early 2025 provided access to care for about 90,000 lower-income Idaho residents who earn too much to qualify for standard Medicaid but not enough for private insurance discounts.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Jan. 2026
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Washington’s neutrality preserved the republic’s future, enabling economic expansion under the funding system Hamilton designed, territorial growth through the Louisiana Purchase and beyond, and eventual emergence as a great power capable of tipping global balances.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Her parents don’t talk to Vittoria and have inked her face out of photographs in the family album.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Red and white roses and framed photographs covered them.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Microsoft said the initiative reflects its belief that AI infrastructure can succeed only if surrounding communities benefit alongside technological growth.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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In 2021, rent growth in Boise topped out about 30% year-over-year, Warnock said.—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Jan. 2026
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And so, as a prelude to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians have searched for blowups (also called singularities) in an assortment of simplified fluid equations, such as those that operate in only one dimension.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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On the wall hangs a blowup of his site plan, which calls for 23 state-of-the-art soundstages, around a half-million square feet of office and workshop space, a ferry dock, and a helipad.—
Andrew Rice,
Curbed,
2 Dec. 2025
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Its first season’s defining set piece plunged the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department into the aftermath of a mass shooting, an act of narrative escalation that felt like the writers’ room emptying its reserves.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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But the pre-dawn New Year’s Day attack on Smoke and the calf represented a new escalation, McGarva said, because the animals were not consumed.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Hadid posted some behind-the-scenes glimpses and stills from the upcoming show to her Instagram.—
Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
8 Jan. 2026
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Belmont Farm Distillery Belmont Farm is known for their use of a nearly century-old solid copper pot still, which is in contrast to the column stills used at most larger distilleries.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2026
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The film was a hit, grossing over $25 million ($145 million adjusted for inflation) on a $5 million budget.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Mortgage rates began to climb as inflation spiked coming out of the global pandemic, with the consumer price index hitting a four-decade high in 2022.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Enlargement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlargement. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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