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as in increased
to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number
as the number of people with cell phones enlarges, more transmission towers will have to be built
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as in expanded
to make greater in size, amount, or number
with a new member of the family on the way, maybe we should consider enlarging the house
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as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
like a wild animal enlarged from a leghold trap, the freed prisoner raced about
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Recent Examples of enlarged
Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
An influx of migrants in 2022 and 2023 enlarged the supply of workers and enabled rapid job growth despite an already tight labor market.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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The exhibition continually plays upon vacillations between intimacy and exposure, with one of the Torso prints of black and white buttocks enlarged and sprawling down the length of one gallery.
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
An influx of migrants in 2022 and 2023 enlarged the supply of workers and enabled rapid job growth despite an already tight labor market.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
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Lieberman said weekend ridership increased the most, providing half-hourly weekend train services instead of hourly.Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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The Orange Democrat’s vote percentage has gradually increased as more ballots have been counted in recent days, eroding Steel’s initial lead of approximately 11,000 votes.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
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From a small area of less than one square kilometer in 1986, the vegetation expanded to nearly 12 square kilometers in 2021.Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Having recently expanded into publishing, the Black List will be dropping further diversity lists over the next several months.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
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The team’s next goal is to explore how plant life colonizes landscapes that have recently been freed from ice, and to predict how this process might unfold in the future.Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said she was freed after over four months of efforts from Iraqi government agencies working with American and Jordanian authorities.Nechirvan Mando, Michael Rios and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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Clad in a scarlet Jean Paul Gaultier gown and mantle, Lipa was augmented by a 53-piece orchestra, a 14-voice choir and a seven-strong band.Mark Sutherland, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
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In an office augmented by AI, numerous rote tasks could be automated.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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One bird tutor was then released into each group, so that the flock mates could learn to use one solution over another.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Following her arrest in September 2022, Molaei was sentenced to over six years in prison but released in February 2023 after being granted amnesty, according to Hengaw.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Nonfarm payrolls rose by 254,000 in September, the most in six months.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nonfarm payrolls rose by 254,000 last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, well above the 150,000 expected by forecasters.Will Daniel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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The company is pursuing accelerated approval for this candidate but reported delays due to manufacturing issues with the CELLECTRA 5PSP device.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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And, after the murder of George Floyd and the resulting prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, institutions and individuals alike had accelerated the shift in their appetites.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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The Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in the Chiang Mai countryside that has rescued more than 200 elephants from the tourism and logging industries since its inception in the 1990s.Kocha Olarn, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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The guard members said crews stationed with them at McGhee Tyson Airport have rescued about 100 people over the weekend and delivered tens of thousands of pounds of supplies.NBC News, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Enlarged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlarged. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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