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Recent Examples of enlargement
Russia should face the consequences of its misguided policies, not reap the rewards of territorial enlargement.
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Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
This enlargement would have allowed these ancient creatures to coordinate the complex sensory and motor information involved in powered movement.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial, as uncontrolled diabetes can lead to cataracts, liver enlargement, urinary tract infections, seizures, kidney failure and ketoacidosis.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
So where does the magic of this 10x soundstage enlargement happen?
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enlargement
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
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The Argentine Football Association (AFA) said he had been diagnosed with synovitis, a swelling of the synovial membrane, with a statement including a photo of Fernandez with strapping on that knee.—
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The federal government pays 90% of the costs of Idaho’s Medicaid expansion, which as of early 2025 provided access to care for about 90,000 lower-income Idaho residents who earn too much to qualify for standard Medicaid but not enough for private insurance discounts.—
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Washington’s neutrality preserved the republic’s future, enabling economic expansion under the funding system Hamilton designed, territorial growth through the Louisiana Purchase and beyond, and eventual emergence as a great power capable of tipping global balances.—
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Walking into the hotel, you’re immediately greeted by eccentric art pieces, from sculptures to paintings and photographs, as well as the hotel’s staple mascot, the four-foot red penguin sculpted from recycled plastic.—
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Posing for photographs is usually hard work.—
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The lesion was one of many — too many to count — that have been removed from his Irish-Scottish skin, including growths on his ears, scalp, lips and back.—
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For optimal growth, plant them with their crowns just at the soil line, ensuring they aren't buried.—
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On the wall hangs a blowup of his site plan, which calls for 23 state-of-the-art soundstages, around a half-million square feet of office and workshop space, a ferry dock, and a helipad.—
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At street level though, Shields’s name is emblazoned in a blowup of a quote about his performance that ran in this column.—
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Its first season’s defining set piece plunged the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department into the aftermath of a mass shooting, an act of narrative escalation that felt like the writers’ room emptying its reserves.—
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But the pre-dawn New Year’s Day attack on Smoke and the calf represented a new escalation, McGarva said, because the animals were not consumed.—
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Hadid posted some behind-the-scenes glimpses and stills from the upcoming show to her Instagram.—
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Belmont Farm Distillery Belmont Farm is known for their use of a nearly century-old solid copper pot still, which is in contrast to the column stills used at most larger distilleries.—
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The film was a hit, grossing over $25 million ($145 million adjusted for inflation) on a $5 million budget.—
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Mortgage rates began to climb as inflation spiked coming out of the global pandemic, with the consumer price index hitting a four-decade high in 2022.—
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“Enlargement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlargement. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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