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sprawl

[sprawl] / sprɔl /


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Tackling retail sprawl has also been an early priority for de Meo as he seeks to reshape the group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Most armed insurgents were limited to central Chhattisgarh state's Bastar region, a vast mineral-rich sprawl of dense forests and hills, roughly the size of The Netherlands.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

That rugged punk rock intensity would later unify the vast, synth-laden sprawl that is her second album, “Día”: a chronicle of her displacement during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent ego death.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Turner’s stomach grew tighter and tighter with the slow sprawl of her words.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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