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expanse

[ik-spans] / ɪkˈspæns /


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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

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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