bulge

There’s a huge bulge in the population from the baby boom, and a lot of those people are approaching retirement and own private businesses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

In China, a huge bulge of working-age people helped amplify sweeping economic reforms that turbocharged its economy starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

“The top of the storage tank began to bulge, and fumes released for approximately 5 minutes until employees activated the manual fire suppression system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Researchers say this behavior matches predictions from the dark matter halo in their model when combined with the known mass of the Milky Way's disk and central bulge.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

Leona stared at me through thick glasses that made her eyes bulge.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Yet the main virtues of the sculpture are its forms themselves: the folds, bulges and edges, and the work’s color—off-off-white for the vessel-like part and simple box base with a bulging layer between them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Together, they ripped the genre rulebook to shreds, magpie-ing elements of Afrobeat, hip-hop, grime, reggae, Latin, R&B, highlife and jazz to create a sound that bulges with possibility.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

If plasma bulges out and touches the walls of the reactor, for example, it can erode the walls over time.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

The dance represents this with a long white sheet that bulges as if with bodies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

A knot the size of a baseball bulges in my throat, and here comes Tanisha, turning around, looking at me with those sad hazel eyes, mouthing, “I’m sorry.”

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

At one point, the vessel "actually bulged" according to the local fire chief.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

During my first visit to Bhutan, my eyes bulged when this dish, a wooden bowl full of bright red chilis, swimming in a sauce of soft cheese, hit the table.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Rain saturated soil, bulged rivers and eroded hillsides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

The area had a prewar population of around 280,000, a figure that has bulged to over 1 million in recent days, according to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

Carmen and her best friend, Tony, had watched in horror as the tank began to shake, as its rounded steel sides bulged in and out.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

In January 2009, newly-rich Manchester City were looking to spend a bit of their bulging bank balance to sign Brazilian playmaker Kaka.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

What was it about O’Rourke’s bulging bookshelves that got Kilmeade so shirty?

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Junior quarterback Koa Malau’ulu, in his third year as a St. John Bosco starter, has new bulging biceps from his many hours in the weight room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

In the morning—before my aching knee and bulging blisters relegated my saunter to a limp—a 32-mile walk around Manhattan sounded like a good way to spend the first Saturday in May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Dark clouds started swirling and bulging downward, lower and lower, like a giant, twisting finger pointing at the countryside.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown