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The area had a prewar population of around 280,000, a figure that has bulged to over 1 million in recent days, according to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

In this part of the planet, the surface itself has bulged upward, forced by great pressures from below, resulting in extensive tectonic cracking of the crust.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Since 1969, the ground at Campi Flegrei has bulged upwards by as much as 3.5 metres, and researchers are eager to find out whether the culprit is underground steam or a pool of magma.

From Nature • Jan. 9, 2013

Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic between North and South America.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've never built a bridge that fell or gave much, perhaps a wingwall has bulged, but then it is the want of proper drainage and backing and nothing to do with the masonry.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry