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
They animate the jar’s swelling surface, its bulge already emphasized by wide black bands around the neck and foot.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 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 scientists in 1980 measured the growth of the bulge over time from the Timberline and Coldwater II sites; scientists today are doing the same but collecting the information via satellites from space.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
