brim
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Bond and stock portfolios have been filled to the brim with AI exposure over the past year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Open singles draw actually started, but spectators had packed the 14,000 seats of Louis Armstrong Stadium to the brim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Every single Formica-topped table was packed to the brim.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
A few metres away, his mother Beatrice was busy ladling out and flipping crepes spread from brim to brim with a generous layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
I straighten the brim of the new running hat I bought with Dad’s gift certificate, which is not suffocating my scalp, thank goodness, but it does keep riding down my forehead.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Each frame is meticulously constructed; every beat of the script brims with passion.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
They loved the camera, eyeing it like prey while tipping the brims of their cowboy hats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Mr. Mikhail’s book brims with details of their lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Another reviewer says the film brims with "more rage than it knows what to do with".
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
The harpsichord plucks along, the violins make big baroque flourishes—the low, angled space of the attic brims with sound.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Arriving in New York after a successful West End run—where our critic called it “an ultimately sad and strange tale that nevertheless brimmed with unforced warmth”—the North American premiere features Andrew Durand in the lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
And social media brimmed with foreign fans admiring the US way of life.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
The three Graham works I caught brimmed with powerful physicality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
On the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, many areas that once brimmed with arabica have been paved over for housing estates or shopping malls.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
He wears a brimmed hat and a tiny smile as he stares off into the distance.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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People rarely visited the park along the canal but because of the message, the place was soon brimming with people eager to spot the shark.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
During the last floods in 2023, many siphoned water from the brimming canals to their fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Lebanon is brimming with archaeological finds showcasing its rich history over thousands of years, from the Phoenician, Persian, Roman and Byzantine periods, the Crusades, and Arab and Islamic sultanates and empires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Huffman’s characterization of Bree is three-dimensional and completely straight-faced, brimming with compassion and curiosity — and, really, so very funny, but without ever making Bree the butt of the joke.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
“You are each competing for the title of my Champion—my right-hand sword in a world brimming with enemies.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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