as in expands
to use or develop (something) to get something else that has greater value
He hoped to parlay his basketball skills into a college scholarship.
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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 Ohtani-Decoy mural gives it a draw that extends well beyond the usual dog-park crowd, pulling in Dodgers fans and anyone curious about the growing Decoy phenomenon that has built steadily over the past three years.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2026
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The elevated risk stretches from West Texas into North Texas, then extends east and south toward Houston.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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The investment boosts OpenAI to a $730 billion pre-money valuation, which marks a big jump from its $500 billion valuation in a secondary financing in October.—
Ashley Capoot,Kate Rooney,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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Make Compost and Mulch at Home Annually enriching soil with compost and mulch reduces the need for fertilizer and boosts the health of edible plants.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Feb. 2026
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Alarm over health harms accelerates Concern over the risks of flame retardants, heavy metals, pesticides and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that mimic hormones in the body has been growing as more studies point to serious health impacts.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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As this trend accelerates, Imax becomes an increasingly valuable player.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2026
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Eat Smaller, More Frequent Meals Eating larger meals packed with fiber can be more difficult for the digestive tract to break down, and increases the likelihood of gas and bloating.—
Pamela Assid Woughter,
Verywell Health,
25 Feb. 2026
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This increases processing costs and reduces the effectiveness and efficiency of the recycling program.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
25 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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While countries such as Spain and clubs such as Barcelona train their young players for years using the same system, with the same positional requirements and following the same procedures, Germany jumps from trend to trend.—
Philipp Lahm,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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At 42 mph, the risk jumps to 50%.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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This is the first of a new type of rideshare program flying to that orbit that augments SpaceX’s Transporter program that flies to SSO.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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HoloRadar augments the safety of autonomous robots by complementing existing sensors rather than replacing them.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Parlays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlays. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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