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Cheese prices, however, rose for the first time in a year, with tighter seasonal milk supplies in the EU outweighing lower prices in Oceania and competitive pressure from ample U.S. export supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I left home with $45 in cash—which felt ample, even indulgent—and one of the crinkly blue totes I had picked up on our last trip to the suburban IKEA.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
A Thameslink spokesperson said its trains were designed to have ample standing room on board its busiest commuter routes.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Rich Paul, James’ agent and close friend, said on a podcast Monday that the ample time James took making the decision was necessary because the choice was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He led me into a small spinney, ample enough to hide us from view.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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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
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.
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Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick up the cue.
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We thank Thee that once again men may have hope, opportunity to work and plan for a better future, a chance to secure peace and an ampler life for themselves and their children.
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The book thus acquired a precision of form and manner which commends it to the French school of criticism rather than to lovers of English humour in its ampler forms and more flowing moods.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
"These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Keen-Lung had, therefore, no just cause for hostilities with the neighbouring states, as they were always too willing to offer the amplest reparation for any cause of offence to the Imperial dignity.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The amplest testimony to the practical wisdom of the suggestions that she made was borne by those Anglo-Indians who were qualified to judge.
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
First, God has made them persons, and not things, and they have, therefore, all equally a natural right to their amplest personal development.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
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