bulge
Example Sentences
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After two days of underwhelming big bank earnings, Wall Street’s bulge bracket stepped up to the plate and hit a home run.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Uganda's youth bulge is both its greatest asset and its most volatile risk.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
It already displays two prominent, sweeping arms that encircle a bright central bulge, stretching across about 30,000 light-years.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025
These tides typically occur during a new or full moon, causing the oceans to bulge a bit more than usual.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025
To make vacations affordable, at public auction the Warden bought a bus that, oddly enough, had once been a mobile TB clinic, with a turret-like bulge in its roof to accommodate an X-ray machine.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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