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Thankfully, Lee and Fechtman said the vast vineyards on the route offer a workable alternative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, it is important to remember that the vast majority of fossils found during excavations are fragmentary.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Large language models are the technology that underpins chatbots and other AI tools by crunching vast amounts of digital data.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The vast majority of incomers, she counters, are “middle-class people with aspirations for the American dream.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
It was vast and blue and it rippled with waves.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
The lands whose governance was at stake are vaster than any nation, and it’s possible the consequences of the vote will be felt for eons.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
In a flash of light, the universe had become an infinitely vaster and more interesting place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
And while disposing treated water in the ocean is common practice for nuclear plants, critics have pointed out that the amount being released from Fukushima is on an unprecedented, far vaster scale.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Pippin gazed in growing wonder at the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything that he had dreamed of; greater and stronger than Isengard, and far more beautiful.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world,” Zhou told Nixon as they rode to the guest quarters that Tuesday.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2022
But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2017
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2016
Today, Ober owns several stores in a South Coast Plaza that is the vastest and most prosperous of all of Orange County’s many temples of shopping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 1990
His self-esteem as a celebrity, stimulated and fattened by a tremendous daily diet of press-cuttings, and letters from feminine admirers all over the vastest of empires, was certainly in no immediate danger of inanition.
From A Great Man A Frolic by Bennett, Arnold
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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