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New York's notorious Rikers Island jail, long criticized for unsanitary and violent conditions, will miss a deadline for the vast complex to close down, prompting disappointment from activists.
From Barron's β Oct. 12, 2026
He will claim that if he could secure that then "the vast majority of the public would expect us to take it".
From BBC β Oct. 12, 2026
Palo Alto found last year that the vast majority of weakly secured internet-connected devices are webcams and digital video recorders.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 11, 2026
Scientists believe much of this transformation occurred as ancient landmasses collided during the formation of Gondwana, a vast supercontinent that eventually included parts of present-day Africa, India, Madagascar, Australia, and Antarctica.
From Science Daily β Oct. 11, 2026
Far above, something—something vast, with massive wings—flew past the moon.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“The Jewish diaspora in Israel is vaster and more diverse than people think,” Barhany said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
The lands whose governance was at stake are vaster than any nation, and it’s possible the consequences of the vote will be felt for eons.
From Salon β Aug. 19, 2024
And while disposing treated water in the ocean is common practice for nuclear plants, critics have pointed out that the amount being released from Fukushima is on an unprecedented, far vaster scale.
From BBC β Aug. 24, 2023
There’s this interest in the deep time, and in some ways, it’s both an acknowledgement of our individual insignificance but also our lineage that is much longer and vaster than is usually acknowledged.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 28, 2022
Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
“Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world,” Zhou told Nixon as they rode to the guest quarters that Tuesday.
From Washington Post β Feb. 20, 2022
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker β Feb. 1, 2016
Everyone’s strings are being pulled by someone, with, as Voltaire wrote, silence being “the verdict of the vastest mind.”
From New York Times β Oct. 26, 2010
Today, Ober owns several stores in a South Coast Plaza that is the vastest and most prosperous of all of Orange County’s many temples of shopping.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 17, 1990
The constitution of matter, speaking now from an admittedly materialistic standpoint, that of the physical sciences, is a subject of vastest interest and importance to mankind, for human existence is material.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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