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sizing

[sahy-zing] / ˈsaɪ zɪŋ /


NOUN
starch
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First introduced in 1988, the Omega Speedmaster Reduced took the Speedmaster Professional — which comes in a sizable 42mm case sizing — and slimmed it down to a chill 39mm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

They were staring at me, sizing me up.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.

From Time Magazine Archive

If any one wished for more than was provided, he was obliged to size it, i.e. order from the kitchen or buttery, and this was charged as extra commons or sizings in the quarter-bill.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

England can boast few keener, better-qualified critics than that admirable woman, Mrs. Barbauld, or, not to dock her of her accustomed sizings, Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

Along the wall you see two tables, which, though less carefully provided than the Fellows', are still served with tolerable decency, and go through a regular second course instead of the "sizings."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall




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