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[vast] / væst /


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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

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

“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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