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"The size of the gap between the educational outcomes of children from more and less advantaged backgrounds is a scourge on our society," Julie McCulloch, chief executive of the EPI said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It calculated payments based on the borrower’s income and family size, in some cases cutting monthly payments to zero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Estimates of the size of this exposure vary between $500 billion to north of $1 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
At the same time, neurons on the left side nearly doubled in size, while those on the right became slightly smaller.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Christopher stared about him for any sign of a woman with a fishing rod, but instead, over the edge of the boat there came a squirrel the size of a cat, with a blunt horn.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
Researchers classified the dinosaur as an unenlagiid, a group of small to medium sized theropod dinosaurs known from Late Cretaceous rocks in South America, Antarctica, Australia, and Madagascar.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
“And that one practically comes to a point. It’s too narrow on top for any decent sized fortification.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Apparel companies face a surge in returns, with one seeing a 50% increase, primarily due to customers sizing down from weight-loss drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Concerns persist about consumer privacy and trust on AI shopping assistants, as well as hallucinations, errors on things like product availability and sizing, and suspicions of retailers’ bias toward some items over others.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
But clothing is a hard-no - sizing is too complicated.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
After shuttering her decade-old, hot-pink, plus-size resale shop, the Plus Bus, in Highland Park last fall, she thought paring down her store’s stock and slightly expanding its sizing could save her business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
He doesn’t say bye or anything, he just looks at me for a little longer, likely sizing me up, or maybe questioning whether or not I’m actually luring him into a trap.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
