sprawl

Now about half a million acres are sitting dormant, and other abandoned groves have been absorbed for cattle grazing or Florida’s lucrative development sprawl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

At the same time, it has tried to encourage home building in urban centers; projects that would add to suburban sprawl require stricter environmental reviews.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Activists across the U.S. are coalescing around concerns about AI-related job losses, data-center sprawl and AI-fueled cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Many Americans are souring on the technology amid mass layoffs, data center sprawl, reports of chatbot-fueled attacks by unstable users and hacking tools that have panicked cybersecurity professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

I stared out the window, watching as the suburban sprawl surrounding Birmingham faded into the slow-sloping hills and fields of northern Alabama.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Disability and sickness payments in the U.K. show how the system sprawls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But when you walk up on his roof, a scenic view of his home city sprawls beneath Todd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

It sprawls across 10,010 square feet and is the epitome of luxury thanks to its lush greenery, which makes it the perfect place for a star to seek privacy.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

The megastore sprawls across 150,000 square feet—triple the size of a typical store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Urban planners assumed most people had cars, so metropolitan areas sprawled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Meanwhile, at a sports hall in Las Rozas de Madrid just outside the capital, the displaced sprawled on camp beds, held their heads in their hands and comforted pets as they awaited news.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Blue skies extended to the horizon, and a small colony of tents, camper vans and motorhomes sprawled out across the lush alfalfa fields.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Behind the Peace River plant, sprawled out across a massive lawn, and behind a chain-link fence, were the ruins of a processing infrastructure.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Nathan took off the bow guard and sprawled across the mattress.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Many of the 100 items selected from the 90,000 housed in the David Bowie Centre, which was built to contain the sprawling archive, have never been seen in public.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

De La Cruz’s campaign office is a former restaurant space on a state highway in Weslaco, a sprawling town just east of McAllen.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Arizona’s 6th Congressional District is anchored in eastern Tucson and its suburbs, sprawling north toward Phoenix, east to New Mexico and south all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum is thinking big for her next home—a sprawling, 10-bedroom property designed around entertaining, family life, and her love of staying in.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Would Neanderthals have been able to serve in the Roman legions, or in the sprawling bureaucracy of imperial China?

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari