full-scale

Example Sentences

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He said Target’s turnaround appeared to be working, but that it needed to “move on from triage to full-scale growth.”

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

A full-scale St Paul's Carnival will not take place in Bristol this year after organisers said it could not be delivered safely or sustainably due to rising costs.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Since taking power in 2012, Xi has used anticorruption purges to consolidate control and advance plans to modernize a military that hasn’t fought a full-scale war since 1979, when China battled Vietnam.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Until one or the other, or preferably both, decide to offer concessions, renewed full-scale hostilities remain an incident away.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

I would like to stay around for the speaking in tongues, should it occur, but the mosquitoes, worked into a frenzy by all this talk of His blood, are launching a full-scale attack.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich