resize
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resizes
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“The logic stands: no need to resize your oversized bedtime t-shirt, but you don’t want your work jacket to look like it’s wearing you.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
More modest use of the technology — to resize or sharpen an image, for instance, would be allowed with no disclosure.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
"We will need to resize the company when we review the strategy," Manner said, adding that the new routes could not completely replace the lost Asian traffic.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022
But if you resize the cost structure, and you begin to reinvest in growth with product-line extensions and new markets and some other things, then there’s a lot to work with here.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
I had to resize the window—he had too many zeroes to fit on my standard display.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
When the social media platform automatically resizes a photo before it’s uploaded, he said, “they destroy evidence, essentially.”
From The Verge ● Jun. 4, 2019
It finds all your pics, lets you embellish them with any of 12 special effects and automatically resizes images into easy-to-e-mail file sizes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A special X client, called a window manager, draws borders and title bars for windows, resizes and arranges windows, and provides facilities for starting other X clients from a menu.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
When we went to get it resized, the jeweler charged us $80, which I think is ridiculous because the stone was loose.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
"As is common practice, the image was resized... during that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
The palace said Queen Mary’s Crown has been removed from display at the Tower of London “for modification” — so it can be resized and re-bedecked.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
He cropped the image, resized it and changed the tones and lighting.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But the clothes Calypso held looked exactly like the clothes he’d been wearing the first day he’d arrived at Camp Half-Blood—except these looked bigger, resized to fit him better.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
It does not offer resizing, and doesn’t employ a gemologist.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Tata Motors-owned JLR is targeting more than $2 billion of savings over the next two years and resizing its workforce as part of efforts to streamline its business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Phase 2 of the Lasting Legacy Campaign includes resizing and improving the stadium seating, something that isn’t scheduled until 2029 at earliest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
"Taking advantage of the broad genetic toolbox available in the fruit fly, we have investigated the mechanisms underpinning nutrient-dependent gut resizing," says Dr. Ditte S. Andersen.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024
The image she was resizing was shot through a crowd to focus on Emily perched on the fountain with her hands pressed flat next to her thighs.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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