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ample

[am-puhl] / ˈæm pəl /


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There’s ample research on the physical and mental health benefits of both spending time in nature and of walking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

There’s also ample outdoor space to enjoy the gorgeous surrounding landscape, which is perfectly manicured with lush greenery.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Built in 2001, the single-story mansion sits behind a gated entrance and was designed to offer Foreman and his family both privacy and ample room to accommodate their interests.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Yet energy producers, traders and federal officials have been dialing down their forecasts due to record U.S. production, ample stockpiles and expectations for a mild winter in much of the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Mr. Hoo slammed the reservations book shut, pressed a hand against the pain in his ample stomach, unwrapped a chocolate bar, and devoured it quickly before acid etched another ulcer.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

With adapters no longer inhibited or intimidated, works totalling over 1,000 pages are tamed by gleefully drastic slashing and/or exploiting the ampler air-time available in TV series.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013

The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their collection this year tends to be ampler as Bardot demonstrated by modeling one of her striped angora sweater-tunics and gold lame thigh boots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick up the cue.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had only to give ampler and more defined form, fuller and more coherent substance, to a kind of entertainment which was indigenous in Italy.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

Just across Fifth Avenue from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the U.S.'s amplest conservatory of time-tested art, is a hothouse of the newest and least tested.

From Time Magazine Archive

"These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

To this most glorious and enfranchising truth, Scripture bears the amplest testimony.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh

From whose top The hemisphere of earth in clearest ken Stretch'd out to th' amplest reach of prospect lay....

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

Disdaining deceit always he openly made the amplest apology frank words could express.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by George Jacob Holyoake


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