resize
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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
A resize arrow will appear in the top-right corner.
From The Verge ● Aug. 2, 2022
"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
In cases of accident, it is seldom necessary to resize the damaged places, unless they are considerable.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel
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 Goerzen, John
The resized Fontana facility is part of that transition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
Yes, do NOT get me started on poor, sweet Walter, who is just doing his best and who got his mom’s beautiful ring resized for Annie.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
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
The St Edward's Crown has been removed from the Tower of London to be resized for the King ahead of the Coronation.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 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
As a part-time designer at a clothing company this year, she offered to look into using AI to help with the monotonous work of resizing product images.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
In resizing the photo to fit the specifications of the news package, “The automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original,” the statement said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 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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