bulge
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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
Its galactic bulge survey alone will observe approximately 100 million stars while exploring regions of the Milky Way that remain largely uncharted.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
At one point, the tank began to bulge, prompting fears among emergency workers of a potential BLEVE.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
The tank heated up in recent days and started to bulge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Barry Voight was right—the bulge had just detached as the largest landslide ever recorded.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Her prose has an apt amount of literary embellishment: Jaguars are “light-footed dancers” and a snake bulges “like Saint-Exupéry’s hat.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The downdrafts can become so severe that air is forced beneath the cloud, creating large bulges of air and water droplets.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
"What we found was that as the vanadium dioxide film changes to a metal, the whole film channel bulges, which is very surprising," Gopalan said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
You get a sense of his vertical straightaways and of the tasteful, nose-shaped bulges on a slate piece called “Gregory.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Age and the settling of the house have warped the door completely, so that the top half of the door bulges away from the jamb.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
“Maybe we take a break from spending the night at Taylor’s,” he said, as several veins bulged out of his forehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Outside the sky bulged with clouds so dark they looked like a CG rendition of hell and the mandatory evacuation area was only three blocks away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
McConnell chafed at this and his beady little eyes bulged with contempt as he had to choke down the filth Trump spewed.
From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024
The garage’s rear wall partially collapsed, and the front facade bulged.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Sitting back on their haunches, they were a good six feet tall, and their legs, arms, whatever you called them, bulged with muscle under their gray fur.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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
At one point, the tank began bulging, and “it got to a point where it does what we call a BLEVE, which is a ‘boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion,’” Covey said Friday afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
The consumer-price index, due out on Tuesday, is forecast to rise a sharp 0.6% in April after a bulging 0.9% increase in March.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
And if no agreement can be reached, strife spreads, even if the storehouses are bulging.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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