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But while the current protests are so far smaller in scale, Kaleniuk said the stakes are much higher.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

If an engineer opts for a smaller model, and that model misses something a frontier model wouldn’t have, then “the human time to figure that out is not worth the toil,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

So even with a possible culprit identified, the outbreak may get bigger before it gets smaller.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

The Alex will screen the movie in 70mm, which uses the same film stock as Imax 70mm but runs vertically instead of horizontally, making each physical frame roughly three times smaller than its Imax counterpart.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Then I began secondary school and, as my world grew bigger, I guess Bubbe’s grew smaller.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler