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That was well below the 50.1 expansion forecast by a Bloomberg survey of economists, and also down from June's 50.3.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

If not, Silicon Valley’s onetime cash-printing machines will have to increasingly finance their expansion through debt—just as that debt is getting more expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Still, steady consumer spending has been a hallmark of the six-year-old economic expansion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Judge James Bianco, a former mental health court judge now on the bench in ODR court, has advocated for expansion of the program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

Some of those projects, including improvements and expansions to bus routes are still in the design phase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

This last rule is perhaps the most important; it would prevent the court from providing under-the-radar expansions of the law as it tried to do in the aftermath of Callais.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Rising construction costs and shortages of labor and parts are forcing some operators to seek deeper-pocketed backers to fund expansions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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