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The term "sizeable" is wielded with versatile nuance in literature, serving to underscore substantial quantities, dimensions, or importance across varied contexts. It frequently quantifies abstract or measurable entities—in discussions of economic challenges and fiscal matters, as seen in discussions of deficits and investments ([1], [2], [3], [4])—while equally capturing physical scope, from describing the moon’s presence in the night sky ([5]) to noting the breadth of towns or ships ([6], [7]). The word also lends itself to depicting human attributes and collections, whether it’s a person's notable stature ([8], [9]) or aggregations like sizeable deposits or groups of individuals ([10], [11]). Thus, by subtly imbuing statements with a sense of notable dimension or degree, "sizeable" enriches narrative tone and analytical precision throughout literature.
  1. A sizeable current account deficit and high unemployment rate remain the two most serious macroeconomic problems.
    — from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  2. Economic growth reached about 6% in 2007 and 2008, owing to sizeable foreign investment in mining and oil.
    — from The 2010 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  3. The subsidies have contributed to a sizeable budget deficit - roughly 7% of GDP in 2007-08 - and represent a significant drain on the economy.
    — from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  4. The subsidies have contributed to a sizeable budget deficit - roughly 7.5% of GDP in 2007 - and represent a significant drain on the economy.
    — from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  5. The evening was fine, and the moon already quite sizeable.
    — from Journal of Residence in the New Hebrides, S.W. Pacific Ocean by Charles Bice
  6. Ellerton Grange was near Uttoxeter, and Uttoxeter was a sizeable townlet just inside my own county, and some fifteen miles from Ashbourne.
    — from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
  7. Till that point we had been sizeable ships, but those two huge things dwarfed us to mean little tramps.
    — from A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron by Rudyard Kipling
  8. He had been a lusty infant and a good-sizeable boy, but he did not reach his full growth until he went to Michigan.
    — from Paul Bunyan and His Loggers by Cloice R. Howd
  9. She was a well-built, sizeable woman, with good proportions and
    — from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
  10. After the United States acquired Puerto Rico, a sizeable number of Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland.
    — from The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
  11. He'd accumulated a lot of dollars these past few months and he intended to blow them, or at least a sizeable number of them.
    — from Spaceman on a Spree by Mack Reynolds

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