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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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Recent advancements in AI allow robotaxi companies to train their vehicles better and more quickly, leading to bold expansion goals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Then, after 9,000 years ago, there was an expansion of farming people from Anatolia during the Neolithic age.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Despite this recent expansion of the statute, the court seems intent on returning to a narrow interpretation.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

Yet he argues the expansion rest on a narrow pillar of growth — what he calls the “Three A’s” — that makes the economy more fragile than it seems and vulnerable to a big slowdown.

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

This expansion of the known world was carefully recorded by cartographers, and it brought about the first great triumph of experience over philosophical theory.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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