as in expands
to express more fully and in greater detail
in your complaint, don't just say that your neighbor has been harassing you; enlarge on what you mean by that
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The bill expands on previous legislation passed banning cell phone use in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026 -
As Texas–Taiwan semiconductor trade expands, a potential conflict between China and the island could disrupt global supply chains.—
Victoria Baeza Garcia,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Feb. 2026
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The company owns and develops commercial properties in California and India.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Meta also develops in-house processors and, according to a report late last year in The Information, had been in talks with Google about deploying the search company’s tensor processing units in Meta data centers in 2027.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Enlarges (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlarges%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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