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ample

[am-puhl] / ˈæm pəl /


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The bank has ample reason to remain hawkish.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

The judge also noted that Agarwal was "clearly a man of ample means who has expensive tastes", in contrast to Lee "who was not in that league".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

UC Berkeley “will spare no effort to provide ample evidence showing that the university complies with all relevant laws, policies and rules governing admissions.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

But of the ample wisdom she imparted, its the power of women’s stories to shift culture, change policy and empower other women that feels most resonant.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

During the first weeks of the Nazi occupation, we scarcely left our apartment, living off the supplies of Mother’s ample pantry.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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

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

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

Thy sons shall grow in wisdom's power, Thy daughters win an ampler grace, And both shall mould that higher race Gifted with learning's priceless dower.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

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

"These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

The attention of professors of physiology is called to this fact, which can be established upon the amplest evidence and the most unimpeachable testimony.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

And self-government, on the amplest scale of modern democracy, cannot be achieved until the traditionally ascendant classes, and the traditionally subject classes, have alike learned to recognise the equality of their rights before the law.

From The Character of the British Empire by Ramsay Muir

Shakespeare are the amplest freight brought home by any voyager.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various




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