How to Use expansion in a Sentence
expansion
noun- This book is an expansion of a lecture series.
- The league is undergoing expansion.
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The new hires is part of a rapid expansion at 33 & West as of late.
— Dave Brooks, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023 -
The expansion means that a lot more people can choose to mess around with SGE.
— Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Nashville is the only expansion team to earn points in Frisco with a win and a draw in 2020.
— Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 7 May 2023 -
The rapid expansion of the hotel chain sparked the Pritzker dynasty.
— Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024 -
But its time of rapid expansion and growth arrived a few years later.
— Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023 -
Rebirth boasts massive expansions to the remake project and the series as a whole.
— Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Patches of this plant will increase in size through the expansion of the rhizome system.
— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023 -
And then things start coming from there — salaries, expansion.
— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023 -
The price of Shell stocks have hit record highs, buoyed by the prospect that the war’s expansion could disrupt Middle East oil production and trade flows.
— Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023 -
The rapid expansions mean millions of dollars in revenue for Hazel.
— Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2023 -
At the same time, Stern drove a dramatic expansion of the NBA’s global footprint.
— TIME, 19 Apr. 2024 -
Not only is Jupiter—the planet of expansion—wrapping up its time in your sign, marking the end of a 12-year (!) cycle.
— Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023 -
The deals with both Simmons and the Duke and Duchess were a part of Spotify’s expansion into podcasting.
— Charna Flam, Variety, 17 June 2023 -
According to the New York Post, Arnett was first told the expansion might cut through part of her property.
— Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024 -
There are also some new projects and expansions in Alaska and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
— Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023 -
More early finds like these fossils in Asia will help shed light on the details of early human expansion out of Africa.
— Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023 -
In fact, in recent years the components have been more divergent than in any expansion on record.
— Rachel Lin, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024 -
The Broad announces massive expansion that will increase gallery space by 70%.
— Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The expansion of agriculture appeared to be hurting forests in Africa.
— Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023 -
The high demand for trade and technical workers was the impetus for the expansion, Mince said, and the grant is an investment in the future.
— Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024 -
There’s already a spinoff program in Panama, and there are plans for further expansion.
— Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023 -
The league announced the draft lottery on Thursday night, including that Golden State, the expansion team, will pick fifth.
— Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2024 -
Amtrak supports expansion in the state, with plans to tie into some 5,000 miles of existing Ohio tracks.
— The Enquirer, 16 Jan. 2024 -
Overseas expansion is considered a major part of the league’s present and future.
— Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023 -
The joint venture was finalized with Ascension as Henry Ford is in the midst of a major expansion of its own.
— Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2024 -
This expansion, though, also helped create the seeds of the current conflict, as writers felt shortchanged by the streaming boom.
— Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 -
This is an expansion of Siddiqsons’ Cloud Core range of soft and drapey fabrics in various weights.
— Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2024 -
All multi-year bull markets, regardless of asset class, are propelled by the expansion of credit.
— Kenneth G. Winans, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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