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

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

In the earlier 2000s the city faced the opposite issue, with more younger children needing reception places, nicknamed "the bulge".

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

The immigrant bulge affected California less than the East Coast cities, but still clouds comparisons of state and local trends to the rest of the nation and may have muted gains the state has made.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

She wiped a doughy hand against the slight bulge under her apron.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez