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size

[sahyz] / saɪz /


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Instead, the researchers suggest that ecological opportunity may help explain the animal's extraordinary size.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

I imagine other people at the firm do have some knowledge of market size and sales projections; clearly, they need to know enough to plan media, retail placement, and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

But the size of the spending betrays how worried they are about people power.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

He said friend of the club worked as the monitor engineer for Fontaines D.C., and helped get a size 3XL to Chatten.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

It was a string of herring eggs and six candlefish the size of my little finger.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

The portions were sized for pleasure, not a food-coma dare.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Many retirees take systematic monthly distributions sized to cover the year’s RMD, and if that’s you and you’re eight months in, roughly two-thirds of your RMD is already gone.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 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

The faded blue eyes, shrewd in spite of their age, sized up Lombard.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

In normal times, making the supply chain work is merely a question of sizing and timing orders.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

Tadeh Ghazalian, owner of Dialog, was still sizing up the damage to his restaurant the other day.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 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

Officer Galluzzo, like Goliath standing with his hand already on his weapon, sizing me up.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds




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