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Investors are sizing up the parade of new offerings expected in coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Beyond staying true to the characters and the time period, Eyrich and Marsh had to consider a few practical elements: the disparities in vintage sizing, for one, plus the horror of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“That city’s beatin’ on you, ain’t it?” she said, sizing up Dad first.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Along the wall you see two tables, which, though less carefully provided than the Fellows', are still served with tolerable decency, and go through a regular second course instead of the "sizings."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
England can boast few keener, better-qualified critics than that admirable woman, Mrs. Barbauld, or, not to dock her of her accustomed sizings, Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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