expanse
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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
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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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The Giver
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