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[vast] / væst /


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A recent survey by the group showed that student participation and interest in exploring career pathways is increasing and the vast majority of participants said they found the experience valuable to their high school education.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

But the right pick will bring “massive” upside, largely given vast skepticism around AI, for example, that’s holding investment money back.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

At the heart of Denning's argument is the idea of tacit knowledge, the vast amount of human understanding that cannot easily be put into words or represented in a form that computers can process.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Before the ban, the vast majority of exports went to Russia.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Her voice was very small, under the vast sky.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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 Aug. 19, 2024

But scientists like Philip Riris have taken a broader approach, looking for enduring patterns of human behavior on a vaster scale of time and space.

From New York Times May 1, 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 Aug. 24, 2023

The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Pippin gazed in growing wonder at the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything that he had dreamed of; greater and stronger than Isengard, and far more beautiful.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“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 Feb. 20, 2022

But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2017

Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.

From The New Yorker Feb. 1, 2016

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 Jun. 17, 1990

For not without the vastest overthrow of the terrene mass can these natural boundaries be changed, as it is easy to gather from magnetick demonstrations.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William




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