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Meanwhile, sizing studies done on the SPR in the 1970s recommended an inventory minimum of 250 million barrels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Typically investors sizing up builders compare price to book value, which measures what a company would be worth if liquidated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The bosses of both Greggs and Leon have both told the BBC this is making them rethink sizing.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
After shuttering her decade-old, hot-pink, plus-size resale shop, the Plus Bus, in Highland Park last fall, she thought paring down her store’s stock and slightly expanding its sizing could save her business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Shackleton and Worsley walked some distance along the beach, sizing up their location.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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 Birrell, Augustine
For the mere cup and trencher, we no doubt Fared passing well; but as for merriment10 And sport, without which salt and sauces season The cheer but scantily, our sizings were Even of the narrowest.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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