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expansive

[ik-span-siv] / ɪkˈspæn sɪv /




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To be granted a more expansive view of ourselves and others?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

The exterior of the home offers a chic facade, while the interior boasts an expansive open floor plan.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

That's also the theme of their new album, The Core, where the band ditch the throwback R&B of their first EPs for a more expansive sound.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Few revisions are as wild or expansive as Thomas Pynchon’s epic deconstruction of the lives of the 18th-century surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who laid out the markers that would divide North and South.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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