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His challenge is to turn his vast collection of assets into a company capable of competing with Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Apple while simultaneously taking billions of dollars in costs out of the business.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 3, 2026
Hard disk drives have become a key component of the AI build-out as they enable the storage of vast amounts of data.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 2, 2026
A vast, newly renovated hangar houses planes undergoing inspection, including one with its twin turboprop engines exposed.
From Barron's β Oct. 1, 2026
He knew the vast majority of the team were there under false pretences.
From BBC β Oct. 1, 2026
We find the row of inns that serve the vast numbers of Jews looking for shelter at the seaport before their departure.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
In a flash of light, the universe had become an infinitely vaster and more interesting place.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 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 β Aug. 24, 2023
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks β Apr. 19, 2023
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
And it is supreme in personality; because in every line of it we feel ourselves in contact with the vastest individual mind that ever yet inhabited the body of a man.
From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing vast
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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