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[sahyz] / saɪz /


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"The size of the gap between the educational outcomes of children from more and less advantaged backgrounds is a scourge on our society," Julie McCulloch, chief executive of the EPI said.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Still more striking is the affection generated in the audience by the more intimate setting of a 300-seat theater, less than half the size of a standard Broadway house.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

A rare corpse flower, known for its massive size and foul stench, will bloom for just 24 to 48 hours.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

She stood her ground but kept quiet, as the Payne dog was double her size.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Nvidia just folded the whole business segment into a new “edge computing” line where it cannot be sized on its own.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

But only 77% of children leave primary school being able to swim 25m - a standard sized swimming pool length.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Jerry isn’t on UCLA’s roster and probably won’t be sized for championship rings any time soon.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Researchers classified the dinosaur as an unenlagiid, a group of small to medium sized theropod dinosaurs known from Late Cretaceous rocks in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Madagascar.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

Sheet AL102 had a hole perfectly sized for Airlock 1.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The retailer has not addressed the allegations in the documentary, or the criticisms for its exclusive sizing.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

Typically investors sizing up builders compare price to book value, which measures what a company would be worth if liquidated.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Watching the dot-com crash, then 2008, then the pandemic drops, changed how I think about position sizing and cutting losses.

From MarketWatch May 26, 2026

After shuttering her decade-old, hot-pink, plus-size resale shop, the Plus Bus, in Highland Park last fall, she thought paring down her store’s stock and slightly expanding its sizing could save her business.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

"He don't look like he skate," Pia said, sizing Stevie up.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds




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