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capacious

[kuh-pey-shuhs] / kəˈpeɪ ʃəs /


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Shoshana Bean’s win for her featured performance as a persevering single mom, is a testament to the musical’s capacious heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

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

Theatergoers of today rarely if ever encounter the workings of a mind so capacious in its interests and abilities as his.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

It would be one thing if Amnesty issued a report calling for a more capacious definition of genocide under international law.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbid ding as ever.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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