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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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Retail sales grew 34% in 2025 to a record 60,119 vehicles, partly due to Polestar’s retail expansion and transition to an active selling model.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

A consensus of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal last week anticipated a 0.1% expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

After signing a slew of new artificial-intelligence deals, CoreWeave returned to the debt markets on Thursday morning to secure additional funding for its business expansion.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Additional techniques provided deeper insights, including flow cytometry, ex vivo expansion, RNA-seq, assay for transposase-accessible chromatin-seq, high-resolution imaging, metabolic testing, and detailed studies of mitochondria.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

The population movement that brought Achmad’s and Sauakari’s ancestors to Java and New Guinea, respectively, termed the Austronesian expansion, was among the biggest population movements of the last 6,000 years.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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