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capacious

[kuh-pey-shuhs] / kəˈpeɪ ʃəs /


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Shoshana Bean’s win for her featured performance as a persevering single mom, is a testament to the musical’s capacious heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Theatergoers of today rarely if ever encounter the workings of a mind so capacious in its interests and abilities as his.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Constitution, may be her best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 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

The midwife lifted her skirt and dug down into a capacious pocket made in her petticoat.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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