capacious
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The main body of the show, mounted in capacious glass cabinets, is organized around his most notable books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
“The crossword is a uniquely capacious artifact ready to absorb and recast any group’s predilections and passions into puzzle form,” he writes.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
“The city needs to develop a sense of using its capacious authority to maximize the welfare of its own people,” he told me.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025
Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbid ding as ever.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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