outsize
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Chef Eric Greenspan has an admirably outsize ego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I don’t have shame about the fact that it’s been hard. I have never met a more humbling experience,” she said with an outsize emphasis on “never.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
While actuators have been used in humanoid robots and research labs for decades, outsize demand for them only emerged recently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
While gasoline plays an outsize role in perceptions about affordability, diesel—key to truckers, construction machinery and farming equipment—is surging even higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Now his legs and arms were so emaciated that I could see all the bones in them, and his knee and elbow joints looked outsize, with the flesh shrunk away.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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