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Enrollment offices have dubbed this phenomenon “yield volatility,” making it harder to predict the size of an incoming class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The researchers also examined the locus coeruleus, a tiny area deep within the brainstem that is roughly the size of a grain of rice.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Eight of the 128 spots in a Grand Slam singles draw are assigned to wildcards, and usually between four and eight at WTA and ATP events depending on the size of the field.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
As the name suggests, a key distinction is their size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
For all his size, Hord moved with the grace of a lynx, flexing his knees and repositioning his fingers on knife and spear.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
There are several jokey videos depicting police chasing human sized cats, and Scottish drag performer Ellie Diamond has issued a video declaring that she is not the Cat in the Hat killer.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Funisia was a stationary, tube-shaped organism that lived in clusters of similarly sized individuals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
I would wander in with my perfectly sized tote, allow whatever charmed me to determine dinner and wait for the ingredients to organize themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nvidia just folded the whole business segment into a new “edge computing” line where it cannot be sized on its own.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
It startled Ifemelu, how much a relaxer retouching cost at Aunty Uju’s hair salon; the haughty hairdressers sized up each customer, eyes swinging from head to shoes, to decide how much attention she was worth.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Only in the final act does Scott bring Washington and Crowe together and the confrontation we’ve waited for turns out to be two formidable men sitting across a table, sizing each other up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Meanwhile, sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Frank stood very still, sizing up the goddess.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
