gross
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Stronger sales of higher-margin premium products and export products helped push gross profit margin 1.6 percentage points higher to 17.9%, while the average vehicle selling price increased to 112,000 yuan, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The public has bullied her out of it. We've bullied her out of fame. I think that's gross."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"This was a gross breach of the most basic duty as a parent," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Consider a couple, both 68, with an adjusted gross income of $180,000.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Well, first let’s look at your personal gross income from lawn cutting, shall we? It’s really the only figure that counts for this aspect of your operation.”
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
That way it would earn a healthy profit even if it grosses less than “Fast X.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Box office grosses have typically done better with more genres in theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2025
“Barbie” charmed viewers at the box office with grosses of $1.4 billion worldwide, became one of last year’s inescapable cultural touchstones and scored eight Oscar nominations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
"A sweeping story about the ethical dilemma of nuclear weapons grosses $1bn?" he joked of the film, which admittedly hadn't sounded punter-friendly on paper.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
The thought of the false teeth currently chillin’ in their purple glitter container inside G’ma’s purse almost grosses Scoob out as much as the oysters.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
It was a movie, the biggest Hollywood grosser of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
In a world where it seems everything seems grosser and scammier all the time, we should be glad that there’s at least one star who is doing well by selling positivity.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
Tom Cruise always has the answer, though: the top grosser of the day was Top Gun: Maverick, which added about $6 million to its box office haul.
From The Verge ● Sep. 5, 2022
The theatrical exclusive “West Side Story” is the second-highest domestic grosser of the nominees with only $37 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
If anybody committed any of the grosser errors —such as putting metal on metal or colour on colour—he became electrified with passion.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Judge Patrick Lynch KC told the former teacher that he had violated the trust placed in him "in the grossest manner".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
His book, "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy," has become an Amazon bestseller because he's promoted by the grossest people on the internet.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2023
HBO Max just launched its rebrand in just about the grossest way possible, Sam Adams writes.
From Slate ● May 25, 2023
Award-winning singer and author Meghan Trainor stops by the Los Angeles Times Studio at the Festival of Books to talk motherhood, writing and the grossest thing about kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
It was the grossest thing I’d ever heard, and I didn’t believe it for a second.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
The horror flick, which hit theaters in May, was made in Los Angeles for a budget of $750,000 and has since grossed nearly $475 million worldwide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
That picture grossed $357 million in its debut from the U.S. and Canada and went on to achieve a global gross of $2.8 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
With an additional $353 million overseas, the film has already grossed $640 million worldwide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Moviegoers were slow to return to multiplexes, and “Tenet” grossed just $58 million domestically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“You have to, or else he’s going to get grossed out.”
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Variety said it represents Focus Features' highest grossing film of all time and noted that it has now had four consecutive weekends above its "already-impressive $17 million debut."
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
But “Stronger” returned dismal numbers at the box office, grossing just $7.7 million on a $30 million budget.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Director Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu” now ranks as the year’s third-highest grossing domestic opening, based on its Friday-Sunday ticket sales of $82 million, according to ticket tracker Comscore.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone achieved huge success after it launched into cinemas in 2001 – making it the highest grossing film of that year.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
I figured she was grossing me out as revenge for not eating her chicken dinner.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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