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He shows little faith in quiet progress, as in: Set good policy in place and hope it succeeds inch by inch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Others argued that the shirt is too cheap-looking to be something Chao, who is every inch the wealthy socialite, would wear.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

If he had connected an inch further up the bat with the first ball of the final over he would have had a six and Hampshire would have needed nine more runs from five deliveries.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Over the next several weeks, their sensors noted that the crack was widening about 0.015 of an inch per day, a rate invisible to the eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Every inch of me was sore from my Glitch jump today, and I had more than a few bruises and burns to show for my romp through 1911.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The bust is about 22 inches wide, 18 inches high and 10 inches deep, according to the couple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

"The hot spots are just barren areas of nothing except 12 inches of ash."

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

You’d stand just inches from another man, while you both had conversations with loved ones which were often deeply personal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Next to me, Meadowlark is bent almost in half, her nose inches from her work.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Revenue inched up 1% to $6.91 billion compared to the year-ago period, when Paramount was controlled by media heiress Shari Redstone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Deaths were more than double that at 1.6 million, while the fertility rate edged down 0.01 percentage points to 1.14 although marriages inched higher, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry numbers showed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

A similar S&P survey of manufacturers inched down to 53.8, a four-month low.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

A separate price gauge known as the core rate, which strips out energy, inched up 0.1%.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The sun inched closer to the western horizon.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The latest flare-ups in hostilities are boosting crude futures prices, which were inching toward $80 a barrel Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

The big change this year is that, previously, Russia was inching forward along almost the entire more than 700-mile front line, or at least in several sectors at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Rescue teams from seven countries are inching towards a man who survived the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

That number is now inching closer to the billion mark with Jio alone amassing 525 million of those subscribers.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

After all, his mother wasn’t growing any taller, but he could feel himself inching up.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia