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sprawl

[sprawl] / sprɔl /


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In Lima's suburb of San Juan de Lurigancho, dusty hilltop neighbourhoods sprawl precariously down the slopes.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Rules required minimum lot sizes of 5,750 square feet for single-family homes, and strict single-family zoning ordinances were criticized for creating sprawl.

From Barron's May 31, 2026

According to Georgette Blau, founder and owner of On Location Tours, L.A.’s sprawl has something to do with that.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

Some corporate tech chiefs are similarly taking a proactive approach to managing their AI agents, hoping to prevent agent sprawl from becoming a more widespread problem.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

The Levitt-built houses sprawl over three Pennsylvania townships—Bristol, Middletown, and Falls, as well as a tiny jurisdiction called Tullytown Borough—and the children who live in them go to one of three different public school districts.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The property, which was first listed by broker Joseph Montanaro for $3.3 million in 2025, sprawls across 4,965 square feet and is situated on a 13,672-square-foot lot.

From MarketWatch Jun. 12, 2026

But the idea behind it sprawls for miles and keeps Bowen talking for hours on end: Route 66.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

The megastore sprawls across 150,000 square feet—triple the size of a typical store.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 14, 2026

L.A., though, has relatively moderate density that sprawls somewhat consistently across hundreds of miles.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2025

McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Meanwhile, at a sports hall in Las Rozas de Madrid just outside the capital, the displaced sprawled on camp beds, held their heads in their hands and comforted pets as they awaited news.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Someone sprawled on the couch reading a book.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Blue skies extended to the horizon, and a small colony of tents, camper vans and motorhomes sprawled out across the lush alfalfa fields.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Behind the Peace River plant, sprawled out across a massive lawn, and behind a chain-link fence, were the ruins of a processing infrastructure.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Buildings and platforms and walkways and machines were twisted together in a heap that sprawled across the mountain.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

But years-long plans to prepare the sprawling county for hundreds of back-to-back events over several weeks are still far from complete.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Its 2,600 Los Angeles employees have access to a free commissary and an endless supply of cereal, packaged snacks and other prepared fare at small food stations scattered throughout the sprawling campus on Olympic Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

We visited the firm’s sprawling Florida Lakehouse campus to see how it’s preparing the next generation of accountants as AI changes their industry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The merger would put a sprawling roster of assets under the control of a single company.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

He sensed that Mariam knew they were never going back to their sprawling villa on Shogund Street, with its airy rooms and plum trees in the backyard.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai




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