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Savannah looked out the airplane window as she passed over the desert expanse, where she feared her mother had been abandoned without ceremony or her family’s prayers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

"It begs the question, why couldn't it have been tested to the north of the Pacific Ocean, where there is an expanse of international waters?" he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 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

It was quite a distance ahead of them, but they were still able to see it in the vast expanse of stillness and ice.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Elordi, who hails from Brisbane, is a little more hopeful about the future of the climate in the context of the film - pointing to other parts where you can see lush expanses of greenery.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

"What makes this pattern so fascinating is that evolution keeps arriving at similar cooperative solutions in very different groups and across vast expanses of time," says Dorus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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

New Yorkers take part in a snowball fight in Brooklyn's McCarren Park, as a major winter storm sweeps through vast expanses of the United States.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Or consider the grassy balds—treeless, meadowy expanses of mountaintop, up to 250 acres in extent, which are quite unique to the southern Appalachians.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson