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copious

[koh-pee-uhs] / ˈkoʊ pi əs /


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Since NBC was handling the coverage, Williams spent much of the day monitoring the news and taking copious notes, ready to go on the air at any moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Carmakers and their suppliers are industrial businesses that use copious amounts of energy, and prices in the UK are among the highest in Europe.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Mr. McElwee has an evident interest in these perspectives as a man faced with copious footage of his dead son, and with how gaps emerge between experience and the record of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

There are copious cognitive benefits and endless possibilities for where their imaginations can run, unbound by the limiting confines of a tablet.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

The heat was getting to me, or the billiard room’s confines, or maybe it was the copious amounts of cigar smoke wafting from the gentlemen on either side of us.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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