bulk
Example Sentences
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Even small companies are bulking up their efforts to safeguard top brass.
Traders turned to safe-haven assets and bulked up on defense stocks, as the biggest market movements in early European trading came away from oil majors.
Nor can it access the bulk of its foreign-exchange reserves held offshore; international banks don’t allow transfers to Tehran because of sanctions.
This year, for the first time, companies representing the bulk of Italian pasta exports to the U.S. faced the prospect of crippling penalties.
The draw meant Chelsea had dropped 13 points at home from winning positions this season -- the bulk of the 15-point deficit between the Blues and Arsenal.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
