expansion
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He also noted the competition that Treasury market is now “facing from the sustained expansion in tech-related corporate debt issuance.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
The expansion of space will prevent it from crossing the growing distance.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The bakery’s owner, who had grand plans for expansion and had laid off factory workers, seemed like a suspect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Nigeria's president has approved the country's largest military expansion in recent times - an attempt to tackle the slew of security challenges plaguing the nation.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Once sympathetic to slaveholders, Van Buren is not an abolitionist but joins those who oppose slavery’s expansion in favor of free, white workers.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
For campaigners, the only solution is to fly less and limit airport expansions until planes can run on genuinely renewable fuel, like electricity or possibly hydrogen.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Changes in housing policy, retirement savings expansions, and early wealth-building accounts, such as 530A, or “Trump accounts,” can help close the wealth deficit, the authors wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The company has been diversifying its content -- most recently with shorter-form video -- after expansions into live events, podcasts and gaming.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
In that world, fireworks might be accompanied by announcements about climate resilience projects or summer meal expansions for children.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The historical southward expansions of Burmese, Laotians, and Thais from South China completed the Sinification of tropical Southeast Asia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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