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development

[dih-vel-uhp-muhnt] / dɪˈvɛl əp mənt /




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The 1994 tournament also gave birth to Major League Soccer, the largest first-division league in the world, and endowed a foundation that has funded grassroots soccer development for more than a generation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

"The proposal is an unjustified major development in the open countryside... the benefits do not outweigh the harms," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

China vehemently denies these allegations, saying its policies have rooted out extremism in Xinjiang and boosted economic development.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

But the day the Air Force selected the rocket company for the award, SpaceX informed Loverro that the company had decided to discontinue development of that rocket, Loverro told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

And third, genes had to explain development: How could individual units of instruction prescribe the code to create a mature organism out of an embryo?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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