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expansion

[ik-span-shuhn] / ɪkˈspæn ʃən /


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Microfinance’s breakneck expansion in Cambodia in the early 2010s coincided with a government push to formalize land ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

By 2023, Beckham was an MLS co-owner after exercising an option to establish an expansion team that he’d secured when he joined the LA Galaxy as a player.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

She said that while targeted sanctions against individuals were "important" symbolically, they have "no impact on the rate of settlement expansion" or on "the scale of settlers' violence".

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Huang also denied that the AI boom was a bubble and that the firm's global expansion was due to geopolitical pressure.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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