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It robs the Games of another big name, and Team Scotland of a poster girl.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
That’s been a big help for events where she only serves beignets because the soft serve machine accounts for a significant portion of the cart’s weight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
SpaceX’s position creates a classic prisoner’s dilemma among the big carriers, noted Julie Zhu, a senior research associate at MoffettNathanson.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Being born with good genes and not abusing them, along with remaining active can be a big plus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
But for now, she is just a little girl with a big imagination, stepping through the grass in the hot, humid air.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
With this World Cup and its even bigger numbers, overwhelming media coverage and an American team that actually came with expectations, doors were knocked down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Pentagon is mobilizing its jets, troops and medics for something much bigger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Oxford team say a second small Ebola vaccine trial is due to begin soon in Uganda, followed by a bigger study, looking at efficacy, in DR Congo.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Through it all, the oil market found ways to offset losses to supplies and avoid even bigger price spikes.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It felt infinitely bigger than the place they had just come from, like the sky was wider.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Now, Paramount’s biggest obstacle is winning the case against Bonta and the other state attorneys general.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Such an agreement would likely spur an industrywide price war and fierce competition for customers — the main reason why the biggest three operators have vowed not to ink this sort of partnership.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
At Regeneron, Yancopoulos’s biggest wins have come from being years ahead of everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The promoter behind some of the biggest comic and entertainment conventions in the UK has banned Meta glasses from its events to stop "secret filming" of guests and attendees.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
But his biggest concern was how he was going to look on camera and what he was going to say.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
I've suddenly got the fear we've bigged this up too much.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
"We bigged him up before kick off for his technical abilities, and he has just shown them again here. This guy is an outstanding player."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
“This agreement has been bigged up as something that will be a solution to the world’s food shortage, and it is just not,” said Tracey Allen, an agricultural commodities strategist at JPMorgan Chase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Across the world in Los Angeles, the Compton Cricket Club is bigged in by Cloth's Bullets – a song, like the CCC itself, dedicated to fighting homelessness and gang culture with civility and dignity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
And they hae banished him, Brown Adam, The flower o' a' his kin; And he's bigged a hour in gude green-wood Atween his ladye and him.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Scott, Walter, Sir
"My first response was embarrassment because I'm not one for bigging myself up," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
"Eddie's been bigging me up, so I had to show what I'm about," said Bristol's Ayton, a flawless 21-0 as an amateur.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
Another massive performance and others aside from Sinfield might be bigging him up.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
GP I really don’t want it to sound like I’m bigging myself up.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
He has mair sense than to ca' anything about the bigging his ain, frae the rooftree down to a crackit trencher on the bink.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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