at large
Example Sentences
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The polls do not suggest for a second that the public at large is in the mood to do that.
From BBC
PARIS—French authorities said they’ve detained four more people in connection to the Louvre heist, including a man suspected of being the only thief to remain at large after purloining the nation’s crown jewels.
It said police were responding to a “firearms complaint” in the town of Portapique — though officers already knew that there had been four homicides and that the gunman was at large.
From Washington Post
He also professed anxiety that the failure of smaller banks could shake confidence in his industry at large.
From New York Times
That is the component that consistently gets ignored, frankly, by the culture at large, by the world.
From Washington Post
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