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
"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
Google is updating the split-screen magnifier feature so that you can resize the magnified portion of the screen, letting you choose if you want to see more or less of the zoomed-in area.
From The Verge ● May 27, 2022
When you're experimenting, take your original, resize and Save As GIF, then go back to your original, resize and Save As JPG, and so on.
From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim
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
"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
He cropped the image, resized it and changed the tones and lighting.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But by the time we get to Omaha, he's had this ring resized.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 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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