scale
Example Sentences
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The Justice Department included UC Davis literature that said the scale had allowed the school to triple the enrollment of Black and Latino students.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
"The crisis facing the Tapanuli orangutan illustrates the convergence of climate instability, biodiversity loss, and vulnerability, calling for a coordinated response matching the scale of the threat," they report wrote.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The U.K. government needs to take more risks on startup funding to retain businesses in the country as they scale up, the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
"But discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected: the size of distribution, the depth and the age range were far beyond anything we had imagined," Xiaotong Peng said.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Though she did not know how to spell scale, she knew where the election would be decided.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing scale
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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