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Recent Examples of grosses
Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
Overall, industry grosses stayed fairly steady from the prior week, with total gross up just 1 percent and attendance fairly flat.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grosses
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Yet after three straight seasons with identical point totals, 41 apiece, Strome had played in just over half the team’s games this year between injuries, illness and healthy scratches peppered into that mix of maladies.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
7 Mar. 2026
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By game’s end, both had impressive totals.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
7 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The top team earns automatic promotion to the fifth tier.—
Ryan Brennan
March 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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The winner of this matchup earns the seventh playoff seed.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are forecast.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Mar. 2026
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Members of Congress now spend remarkable amounts of time raising money.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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Typically, politicians have looked to corporate profits as a share of GDP as a way of measuring the state of the country.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Mar. 2026
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But experts have questioned the legitimacy of such commitments, given that hyperscalers have struggled to turn profits.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The United States’s $38 trillion national debt now nets an annual interest bill of another trillion dollars each year.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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Orlando striking a deal now nets the club some financial windfall rather than losing him on a free transfer.—
Tom Bogert,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Films with casts that were 41–50% BIPOC performed the best across several categories, including the highest median global and domestic box office receipts, the largest average theater releases, the highest average opening-weekend rank, and the widest international distribution.—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
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This might include receipts or invoices, proof of income or records of eligible expenses, such as student loan statements.—
Rebecca Safier,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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The cool-girl pair garners plenty of praise, and the kicker?—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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That doesn’t factor in the attention Cade Cunningham garners from defenders, which should generate open looks for Huerter.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps some enterprising Democrat or Republican will come along who exhibits more faith in our constitutional system, governs with the foresight that there are more elections to come than just the next one — and reaps the benefits.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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