expansion
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The Sparks’ 2025 first-round draft pick Sarah Ashlee Barker was left unprotected and went to Portland in the expansion draft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Several other measures cited alongside the policing package had also been previously announced, including £7m to tackle antisemitism in schools and universities, and the expansion of community cohesion programmes.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Malaysian manufacturers and Thailand’s Sri Trang Gloves have remained disciplined in adding capacity, but Intco’s expansion could keep pressure on prices and margins, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The action at the Venetia mine follows a decision earlier this year to pause the Tuzo Phase 3 expansion project at the Gahcho Kué mine in Canada, it said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 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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It has said that major customers would fund capacity expansions, with up to 80% of required capital investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
It will show up as factories never constructed, expansions delayed and workers never hired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
“He will fight, he will push back, he will do all that he can,” said state Sen. María Elena Durazo, a former labor leader who has championed the immigrant healthcare expansions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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