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Despite developers eyeing the prime real estate on the country's tourist coast, activists like Lika successfully pushed to protect the site, which is over four times the size of New York's Central Park.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The DDT toxic site is believed to be spread over a piece of ocean bed the size of San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the first experiment, the researchers placed a large crystal, known as the monolith, beside a regular rock of similar size.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Wall Street Journal plunked down $1,300 so I could size up the new Miami outpost, a 34,000-square-foot temple to luxury travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Despite his size, Moose was a house dog from the start, and he slept beside Jonathan’s bed every night.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
UniCredit already owned HVB, a decent sized lender to the country’s backbone of small companies known as the Mittelstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Customers will deploy 10s or 100s in a single project, “basically creating a power-plant sized battery” that can store power and supply the grid when energy is expensive, or directly serve facilities like data centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
A similarly sized 27-point improvement was seen for women’s employment for those who were previously not employed.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
But only 77% of children leave primary school being able to swim 25 metres - a standard sized swimming pool length.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
It's small enough to fit into his cupped palms, with four walls, an A-frame roof, card sized cutouts for windows, and a door.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
Meanwhile, sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ronaldo stood over the ball and began sizing it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Typically investors sizing up builders compare price to book value, which measures what a company would be worth if liquidated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Initially thinking the inscription was Ian Drew before discovering no such soldier existed, the sizing on the letters indicated there was a capital missing from the start of the name.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
I imagined her on the dock, between us and the shark, sizing it up before figuring out how she was going to lay it out on the ground.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
