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at large

adjective as in escaped

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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.

This week, the California Air Resources Board will vote on adopting a new slate of requirements to better identify and more quickly respond to methane leaks and disastrous underground fires at large landfills statewide.

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These advances didn’t solve our nation’s inequality, but they did prove that our work was relevant and beneficial to society at large.

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He called her “a great hire, wonderful for the La Jolla Playhouse and San Diego for sure, but also for the American theater at large.”

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When I worked at the BBC half a lifetime ago, like all staffs at large, public institutions, we had some good gags in corporate self-deprecation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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