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I left home with $45 in cash—which felt ample, even indulgent—and one of the crinkly blue totes I had picked up on our last trip to the suburban IKEA.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Fueled by ample dry vegetation after a snow-poor winter, the Spokane blazes had, by Monday, destroyed more than 700 structures and forced some 67,000 residents to evacuate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
AI’s threat to safety, national security and computer networks is frightening, but we have ample experience regulating the negative side effects of otherwise helpful products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Fortunes can fluctuate across the seven events so it is needed in ample supply to come out on top at the end of two days of competition.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Over the years, Mariam would have ample occasion to think about how things might have turned out if she had let the driver take her back to the kolba.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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With adapters no longer inhibited or intimidated, works totalling over 1,000 pages are tamed by gleefully drastic slashing and/or exploiting the ampler air-time available in TV series.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
Their collection this year tends to be ampler as Bardot demonstrated by modeling one of her striped angora sweater-tunics and gold lame thigh boots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick up the cue.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Women serve largely on boards of hospitals, prisons, charities, and reforms, and urgently feel the need of ampler knowledge.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
"These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Just across Fifth Avenue from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the U.S.'s amplest conservatory of time-tested art, is a hothouse of the newest and least tested.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the end of this century this was given the full weight of his amplest approval by Pope Boniface VIII., who conferred on it the privilege of having priests among its members.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The Romans exercised this toleration, in the amplest manner.
From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage
Yes—thou hast amplest reason for thy fears; For till this hour, so pregnant with events, Thy fame and glory never were at stake.
From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Hannah More
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