capacious
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For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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
For Nature Theater, a capacious, playful experimental theater company in New York City that is known for its risk and rigor, dance serves a distinct purpose.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2024
I expected again to be left in the dissenting cold by “The Hills of California,” but this capacious play has been unfolding in my mind since I saw it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024
Glancing around the helicopter’s capacious interior, I tried to fix the names of my teammates in my memory.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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