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largesse

[lahr-jes, lahr-jis] / lɑrˈdʒɛs, ˈlɑr dʒɪs /












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Whichever way you look at it, men's professional golf needs backers with the deepest pockets to sustain such levels of largesse.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Several factors contributed to largesse for Zaslav, who has been running the debt-laden company for four years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“That largesse can be redeployed in the form of lower interest rates to support households and small and medium-size businesses.”

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

And yet there’s something admirable in their scrappy monumentality, particularly during this time of Hollywood largesse for franchises and austerity for just about everything else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The Garcías could not afford extras, and they did not want to put their hosts in the embarrassing position of having to spend money out of largesse.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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