large-scale

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He shocked many by having an entire section of the White House abruptly bulldozed last October, announcing the need for a new large-scale events center.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Hughes visited Return Home, south of Seattle in Washington state, the world's first large-scale human composting facility.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced its “ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative” in February, which calls for “eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, as well as the acquisition of 10 existing ‘turnkey’ facilities.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

This expansion, known as inflation, is a key concept in cosmology because it helps explain the large-scale structure of the universe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

Gaseous diffusion and the centrifuge appeared to be feasible in theory for the large-scale production of U-235, but both were hobbled by unsolved technical problems, and neither had yet produced any U-235 to speak of.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik