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While the flow of earnings reports slows from last week, there are still some big names reporting that could impact the market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
One day the bust will be the big one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Those are big wins that Angelenos see and feel, it’s not campaign rhetoric. The Mayor’s getting things done across the City and that’s how you win.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
“In the next few years, cybersecurity for ServiceNow may be as big as ServiceNow is today,” McDermott told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
The show is all big photographs of different sizes expertly framed and hanging on the walls.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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After moving to downtown Detroit, Hall and his wife downsized to one vehicle, and in a bigger city, the Edge made for a perfect fit, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
But such data provides just one part of a bigger picture.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Rapidly improving AI capabilities are resulting in software products that are constantly evolving, making pricing software an even bigger challenge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Then there’s a much bigger question, which my colleague Bill Shaikin explored in 2022: Is the gondola phase one of a plan to develop stadium property into some kind of Dodgertown commercial extravaganza?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Howling and struggling, I was led away from the world I knew into a bigger, stranger, harder one.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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So it’s not entirely accurate to say that Infantino wanted to sell world soccer’s biggest brand to the Trump family.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Garrett, 30, is one of the biggest stars on a star-studded Rams team that is favored to win the Super Bowl, regardless of whether Donald comes out of retirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The board wouldn’t have voted to close without alignment from their biggest funder, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Sean McGreevy, Belfast Area Manager, said this is one of the biggest events Translink has been involved with in recent years.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Your own daughter, in one of the biggest movies ever made! Golly, I wouldn’t miss it for anything.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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I've bigged myself up about doing an Ironman, but now I'm starting to regret that!
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
“This agreement has been bigged up as something that will be a solution to the world’s food shortage, and it is just not,” said Tracey Allen, an agricultural commodities strategist at JPMorgan Chase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Brendan was never as good as people bigged him up to me.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2015
Across the world in Los Angeles, the Compton Cricket Club is bigged in by Cloth's Bullets – a song, like the CCC itself, dedicated to fighting homelessness and gang culture with civility and dignity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
But whan erthe opon erthe has bigged his borowes, 12 Than sall erthe for the erthe sofur sharpe shovres.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
"Eddie's been bigging me up, so I had to show what I'm about," said Bristol's Ayton, a flawless 21-0 as an amateur.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
Another massive performance and others aside from Sinfield might be bigging him up.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
GP I really don’t want it to sound like I’m bigging myself up.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
"Let me just clear that up because obviously Leicester fans know how much respect I've got for them, their owners and constantly bigging up Leicester and what they do," Wright said on Twitter external-link.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021
With man and woman, horn and hoof, And bigging for the homestead roof.
From The Norsemen in the West by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)