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The firm’s next big bet is going small.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
His son Aron Davies said the family had "suffered an unimaginable loss", describing his father as "driven, determined and someone who simply didn't accept that a problem was too big to solve".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But her big passion was for horses, with her Instagram showing the young woman proudly riding or training them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The big organizations, though, do not seem to feel that tension.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Your dad tells me your birthdays are tomorrow. You two are turning fifteen! That’s exciting. Any big plans?” she asks.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
While the Moon has numerous craters, many of which are far bigger than McGetchin, researching a crater's formation in real time can help build understanding of the Moon's geology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Layers of management help bigger bosses get stuff done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Sputnik Planitia is a vast glacier made largely of frozen nitrogen and is bigger than Texas and Oklahoma combined.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
It's a bigger number than usual and I wanted to quickly run through all of them.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“At least with automobiles, the cab can be bigger than what a horse can pull.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Attacking duo Cole Palmer and Phil Foden are on there too, after being two of the biggest omissions from Tuchel's squad for the World Cup.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“What we’ve seen this year is the biggest crude-oil supply disruption in history,” said Jim Burkhard, S&P Global Energy’s head of crude-oil research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That added sensitivity could help astronomers discover more planets during their earliest stages of formation and close one of the biggest observational gaps in exoplanet science.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Michigan-based Lineage is one of the world’s biggest cold storage companies, with nearly 500 buildings in 19 countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Our biggest problem was idleness, wedged together as we were around the long rows of tables with nothing to do.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
I've suddenly got the fear we've bigged this up too much.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
“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
This album has been bigged up by professional critics over the age of 50, but they are all closet fans.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2020
Brendan was never as good as people bigged him up to me.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2015
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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
That said, this England group is always bigging each other up so it is hard to know.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Another massive performance and others aside from Sinfield might be bigging him up.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Patrick Vieira has been bigging up Michael Olise, and warning off potential suitors.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2022
No," said Argyll, "it was in Doom, the place of a small landowner, Lamond, whose castle—it is but a ramshackle old bigging now—you may have noticed on your left as you rode round.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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