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Thankfully, Lee and Fechtman said the vast vineyards on the route offer a workable alternative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, it is important to remember that the vast majority of fossils found during excavations are fragmentary.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
"We are tiny little specks in a huge vast area of nothingness," says Andrew.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The Taliban authorities have expanded the mining sector since returning to power five years ago, aiming to tap into Afghanistan's vast underground resources to boost state coffers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The process releases vast amounts of energy—it’s the energy from fusion that gives the sun its light and heat.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
Beyond the disappearing local newspapers and women’s vaster choices, I couldn’t hazard a guess about the fate of pageants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
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
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“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
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker ● 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 ● 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 ● Jun. 17, 1990
"Mr. Werner, I have a matter of the deepest and vastest importance to unfold to you," he began, rather mysteriously, "for which I desire five hours of your unemployed time——" "Five hours!"
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
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