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What will it take for big food companies to get back on the right side with consumers?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
At any given moment, some investments or assets are in vogue with big institutional money managers, who typically move as a herd and have an outsize influence on asset prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
With Thursday's stage also flat and looking likely to be a sprint finish, the big guns have another chance to break their drought tomorrow.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“They’re slowly leaning in to actually making movies for an audience that maybe traditionally wouldn’t have gone and seen a big blockbuster ‘Avengers’ thing,” Jahn said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Phrenologists reason that if you have a strong organ, it will be big and project from your skull as a bump.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
As gray and wrinkled as the bottom of a mummy’s foot, the Cyclops’ face is wonderfully askew, like he was stepped on by someone even bigger than him.
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
Netflix’s stock has suffered this year from the departure of co-founder Reed Hastings as well as its own efforts to get bigger.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Makes me feel part of something bigger than myself.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
“The biggest challenge for 21st-century India is how to go forward with democracy and merit,” Mr. Das said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
"The biggest contributor to Toronto's spike in air pollution right now is wildfires, though the higher than average temperatures are also playing a role," Armen Araradian of IQAir told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The recent oil shock has been the biggest driver of the spike in inflation this year.
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
“Your fault or not, she’s not exactly Gabe Meyer’s biggest fan.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
O bigged hae they a bigly bour, Fast by the roaring strand; And there was mair mirth in the ladyes' bour, Nor in a' their father's land.
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
"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
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
This is no mine ain house, I ken by the bigging o't'.
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir
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