vastness

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Obama later clarified that he meant that other forms of life are likely to exist somewhere in the vastness of the universe, but didn’t think any had visited Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The singer has previously written about the "vastness" of his grief and about how the death of his sons changed him.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Finding and tracking such a small object in the vastness of space, especially when its position is still uncertain, is a remarkable achievement.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

But he was able to develop on observational grounds something akin to the modern cosmic perspective: What a wonderful and Amazing scheme have we here of the magnificant vastness of the universe ...

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan