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bulge

[buhlj] / bʌldʒ /




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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