sizing
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Herring is also more descriptive about sizing for dresses, tops and other items, noting if they tend to be oversize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
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
He was accustomed to sizing up other rabbits and deciding what they were good for.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Holyoke, who graduated at Harvard College in 1746, says: "The breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
Along the wall you see two tables, which, though less carefully provided than the Fellows', are still served with tolerable decency, and go through a regular second course instead of the "sizings."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
