expanse
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He later planned a counteroffensive that regained a broad expanse of territory in the east.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Not everything is a playoff, championship or otherwise high-profile sports event that we will naturally scour the viewing expanse we call television to find,” Corbelli said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 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
The flat expanse of Winnipeg, Canada, where it was filmed, makes a good topographical match for east Kansas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
All he saw was darkness, nothing but an endless expanse of black.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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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
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
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
The water that flows down irrigation canals to some of the West’s biggest expanses of farmland comes courtesy of the federal government for a very low price — even, in some cases, for free.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025
Closed, they weren’t doors at all, but only smooth expanses of wall, because back when the citadel was “alive,” the metal had simply melted open and shut, re-forming seamlessly.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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The Giver
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