capacious
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I always contrast Thomas’ capacious ability to feel sorry for himself with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, because she also faced so many hurdles in her own life, right?
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
“The crossword is a uniquely capacious artifact ready to absorb and recast any group’s predilections and passions into puzzle form,” he writes.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
New and more capacious understandings of queerness, and growing numbers of queer and trans people, are just part of this change.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2025
Glancing around the helicopter’s capacious interior, I tried to fix the names of my teammates in my memory.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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