expands

present tense third-person singular of expand
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as in extends
to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests

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Recent Examples of expands This strengthens the relationship and expands the partnership between Variety and SCAD, following the hosting of the 2026 class of 10 Animators to Watch at SCAD AnimationFest at its Atlanta campus earlier this month. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026 It is funded through the Job Development Investment Grant program, which directs a portion of a JDIG award to the account when a company locates or expands in a Tier 2 or Tier 3 county. — Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2026 Looking further ahead, Widstrand will be seeking to more directly target women and younger viewers too, as the service expands. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026 Single-pressing the button collapses the view to show only the arrow and distance to the next turn, while double-pressing the button expands the view to show a map with the full route across the bottom half of the display. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026 But until crude oil production and refinery capacity expands, people will need to live with higher prices. — Vidya Mani, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 The bill also expands the list of criminal convictions that make people ineligible to hold a fireworks license. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026 The four-hour proceeding provided a detailed look at the government’s cases against Pineda and Handal as the long-running federal prosecution over the assassination expands to defendants recently brought before the Miami court. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026 The Debrecen plant adds another major manufacturing location as CATL expands its production footprint closer to European vehicle manufacturers. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expands
Verb
  • Functional connectivity in the fetal brain develops substantially later in gestation, with measurable differences in brain activity and facial responses to noxious versus innocuous stimulation appearing at approximately 33 weeks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Schneider Electric develops energy management and automation technologies used across homes, buildings, data centers, factories and power grids.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Once the company and its shareholders become accustomed to such a financial boost, an environment where individual guest spending sharply increases even when domestic park attendance is soft or steady, there’s likely no turning back.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This concern increases tenfold for flight attendants, as a negative interaction isn’t necessarily fleeting; they may be stuck in the air with rude or disorderly passengers for several hours.
    — Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Beijing envisions a comprehensive AI education system that spans all levels of schooling and extends to the broader public.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Research extends beyond Toyota The new center will also have an academic research role.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Today, Olde Naples Hotel rises beside its historic predecessor as a new-build interpretation rather than a reconstruction.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The figure rises to 49% among those in their twenties, and 16% are already relocating.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Economists expect Beijing to lean harder on stimulus to stabilize corporate profitability, as consolidation accelerates in sectors already facing sluggish demand, fierce competition and cutthroat price wars.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Openness expands access to talent, accelerates development and reduces dependency on a single vendor.
    — John Healy, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Saturday’s game opens a stretch of nine consecutive weeks of football for Kansas — no additional byes the rest of the way.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The show opens with a handful of personal objects tracing Pavarotti’s unlikely path from Belém, a port city on the edge of the Amazon, to Paris.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But when an event swells to the size of a city — the New York City Marathon had nearly 60,000 finishers last year — climate risk is no longer solely a personal matter.
    — Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
  • There is an art to stylizing a position of interrogation in excess of its biomechanics, an art to how lockstep beats a cadence while a unit swells into an enveloping arc.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That the stakes are high only augments the thrill of unlocking their working equation.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The funding augments ongoing lobbying efforts from the individual firms.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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“Expands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expands. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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