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Recent Examples of grossing
Topline Movie theaters just had their lowest-grossing summer in three years, as this year’s total barely fell below last summer’s gross as moviegoing cooled in August, despite early analyst expectations that this summer could have been a return to box office glory.
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Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossing
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Notably, that was considerably more than his boss was earning as a House member, $174,000.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The craft seller at a roadside market is earning her independence.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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But the Mayo Clinic recommends that people living in high-risk places take a number of steps to protect themselves, including using netting with insecticide over their bed, using insecticides to kill insects inside their home, and using insect repellent on their body.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Continue reading … BEHIND BARS – Feds bust 'public enemy number one' in a massive operation netting $11M and 617 arrests.—
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FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film started out as one of season’s hot favorites, garnering a near-record 13 nominations, including in the Best International Feature Film category.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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After all the hype, Apple’s iPhone 17 has now been revealed, with the all new Air and Pro models garnering most of the attention.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Now known as the Cambridge Analytical scandal, the now shuttered marketing firm was accused of obtaining information on Facebook users in order to target voters during the 2016 presidential election.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But Taiwanese authorities, after obtaining a search warrant for Ku’s Google account, said the IP address for the email indicated that it was sent from Herchen’s hotel room.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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As geologists were realizing that earthly timescales were vast, astronomers began to discover that the same applied to the distances of the cosmos.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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One of the most common frustrations with meetings is walking out and realizing no one clearly captured the important points.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This includes today’s conventional AI and the rest of the pathway up to attaining AGI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Thus far, the most notable example of a trenchocrat attaining a high federal position is Artem Zhoga, who built his career in the ranks of anti-Ukrainian military units in the Donbas region.—
ANDREI KOLESNIKOV,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maxwell, a former British socialite who had been accused of procuring and grooming underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, fascinated Kraus.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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For example, if a European food company is procuring in Europe and the yields will go down over time, that company will need to procure more of those foodstuffs from other areas.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The one-time Iron Range rising star was a congressman from 1975 to 1981 but decided to forgo reelection just as Ronald Reagan was winning the presidency.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Kapil Kajal Kapil Kajal is an award-winning journalist with a diverse portfolio spanning defense, politics, technology, crime, environment, human rights, and foreign policy.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Grossing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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