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Six example sentences with expansion, each labelled with its topic.
Cheap credit drove an expansion that added two hundred thousand jobs before the central bank raised rates again.
Economics
Their expansion into three new cities happened in a single quarter, and the support team never recovered.
Startups
Heating the rail by twenty degrees produces an expansion of several millimeters, which is why the joints leave gaps.
Science
The chain's expansion from ten stores to two hundred took six years and outran its supply system by the fourth.
Business
The museum's expansion added a glass wing that doubled the exhibition space without touching the original facade.
Architecture
The expansion of the orchestra from forty players to ninety let the composer write for a full brass section at last.
Music
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