capacious
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Tanizaki’s capacious tale is as intricate as origami—and the Makioka women are memorable, both as subtly drawn individuals and a collective.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“The city needs to develop a sense of using its capacious authority to maximize the welfare of its own people,” he told me.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2025
New and more capacious understandings of queerness, and growing numbers of queer and trans people, are just part of this change.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2025
It would be one thing if Amnesty issued a report calling for a more capacious definition of genocide under international law.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
“Sorry. I just seem to precipitously have this capacious and voluminous vocabulary at my disposal.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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