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[am-puhl] / ˈæm pəl /


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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick up the cue.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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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