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expanse

[ik-spans] / ɪkˈspæns /


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The plan would see India send several of its more than 3,600 tigers to southwest Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, a protected expanse of lush rainforest stretching over a million hectares.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Despite this expanse of land, the home still manages to feel like an intimate family space, he says.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Julia Dawber's home overlooks an expanse of scenic coastline, and she says as many as nine campervans can park up near the shore at any one time.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

Signs on either side warn — ominously, given the unforgiving expanse ahead — that once you’ve left, the nearest gas station is not for another 100 miles or so.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

The women’s gallery was a treacherous expanse of crisscrossed beams, only partially floored.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Once master of vast expanses of northern, central and western Africa, France has played a crucial role in the continent's post‑colonial history, repeatedly intervening militarily since the early 1960s.

From Barron's May 10, 2026

See Vija Celmins’s expanses of wave-capped oceans, which remain as delicate and ephemeral in drypoint as they are in oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

But its endless expanses have been swept by panic since an outbreak of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, which was declared a national disaster in February.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

With it, Ellington didn’t just adjust to a technological innovation; he embraced it as a fresh canvas, stretching his musical imagination across unprecedented expanses of time and sound.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

He had never seen those great shining white expanses of ice and snow.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater




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