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We’re going to invest $40 million in brand support in two areas, focusing on frozen meals and meat snacks, which are two big growth drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The reverse is true of any assets that are particularly unfashionable with big institutional investors.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Here are three excursions that will take you into coves, harbors and waterways the big ships can’t reach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“This creates a big pool of capital that is fairly neglected,” he said, which has led to a declining amount of research coverage of small-caps within the brokerage industry and “less price discovery.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Clavilefio came on the shoulders of four big, monstrous-looking men.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
One of the bigger shifts lately is that AI “hyperscalers,” or companies operating huge data centers and other AI services, are selling shares and debt to raise capital for a historic capital-expenditure spree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Later, Feinmann said his words were not directed at the Mexican people — while musing that Sheinbaum had bigger things to worry about, like combating narco-trafficking, violence and corruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
So Burnham's decision on personnel might be part of a bigger picture.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ng said Beijing would have made "bigger" policy moves if it really wanted to prop up the real estate market.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“That you sometimes need to just be yourself instead of a part of the bigger community?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
He has repeatedly walked back his biggest public threats, including taking Kharg Island and Iran’s oil industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The group, one of the world's biggest chemical companies and a key supplier to industries ranging from agriculture to automotive, had previously predicted a range of 6.2 to 7.0 billion euros.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
BlackRock’s shares jumped early Wednesday after strong inflows into exchange-traded funds and buoyant markets helped the world’s biggest asset manager beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Spain, Indonesia, Italy, Greece and Canada were among the countries that saw the biggest swings towards China.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Aw, Daisy, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I couldn’t climb that sycamore. It’s the biggest one in those bottoms. Why, it’s a hundred and fifty feet to the first limb.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
I've allus taen care that t' moors hae bin cropped fair; thou reckons thou'll feed mair yowes an' lambs on t' moors when thou's bigged thy walls; but thou weant, thou'll feed less.
From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.
"My first response was embarrassment because I'm not one for bigging myself up," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
That said, this England group is always bigging each other up so it is hard to know.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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
To Idingtoun's men bigging the hay rick, 20 shiling.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
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