scale
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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
"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
One wishes it were closer to the scale of something by John Chamberlain or Viola Frey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
He said: "These things are toxic, extremely toxic, in extremely small concentrations... and it's only now we're starting to glimpse the full scale of contamination."
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Most consisted of two squadrons of ten aircraft apiece; Marina Raskova’s three female regiments were not going to change the outcome of an air war on this scale.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing scale
The Vocabulary.com Top 1000
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 1
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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