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[swel] / swɛl /






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On an Aug. 4 investor call, Musk said that capacity could swell to around 10 gigawatts by the end of 2027, or even reach 15 gigawatts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

They might subside for a little bit, but another system — Tropical Storm Fausto — could generate “another set of elevated swell at our beaches later this week into the weekend.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

By 2034, the robo-adviser industry’s market size is expected to swell more than sevenfold, to $102 billion.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Zhou's family is among tens of thousands of people in Guangxi displaced from their homes since Typhoon Maysak swept the region over the weekend, causing rivers to swell and dam walls to break.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

It made my heart pinch and swell all at once.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Press coverage swells with glowing profiles of landowners who turned down offers from developers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Tropical swells generated by Hurricanes Elida, Fausto and Genevieve off Mexico have been slamming the shore for two weeks.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

Condos are becoming cheaper as inventory swells — but experts warn that the list price doesn’t paint the full picture.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

They spray confetti into the audience to punctuate their biggest songs, and add an honorary fifth member, Ryan Malcolm, to flesh out their sound with swells of keyboard and additional rhythm guitar.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

The ship swayed as it cut through the stormy swells.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

As startup valuations swelled, the checks venture-capital firms were asked to write in each successive funding round grew larger.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Inventory on the balance sheet swelled to $11.1 billion last quarter, nearly doubling from a year before.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Those district court battles have grown increasingly heated as caseloads have swelled.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

As passengers chanted the incantation together, white light flashed through the carriage, and music swelled from the speakers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

I let my breath out and my whole chest swelled.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Inflammatory breast cancer is where cancer blocks lymph vessels which makes the breast red and swollen while triple negative breast cancer lacks hormones and HER2 receptors.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

She nursed a swollen ankle after falling in the evacuation centre.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Early on, Poopies gets swollen lip injections that, someone claims, will last the whole movie.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Over Christmas, he landed in the emergency room after waking up with a swollen face and tongue.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

“Maybe you thought I was your sister,” Max murmurs from the bed, his swollen eyes barely opening.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The main symptoms of breast cancer in women may include a lump, or swelling in your breast, chest or armpit, the NHS website says, external.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Among the highlights for Wall Street analysts: a swelling backlog, growing customer diversification and rising prices.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Growth since April’s weakness has been concentrated in the private sector, swelling by roughly 146,000 in three months.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The yen has been weakening because of the gap between Japanese and US interest rates, high oil prices and concerns about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's spending plans further swelling Japan's enormous debts.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

My wounds look significantly worse before they start to look better, and when the swelling subsides it’s clear that my nose will be off-kilter for life.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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