expanse
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Key to lofty valuations being assigned to the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI is the assumption of massive growth—growth that can only occur if more data centers are opened to build and fuel AI’s expanse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
One of the most memorable photographs on view was taken by Jeanne-Claude, printed large and picturing a wide expanse of landscape, with cows grazing near the fence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The village of Dhunge, once home to roughly 150 families, now lies in ruins, reduced to a swampy expanse with an ominous rotting stench -- one of dozens of settlements obliterated by the Himalayan floods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The apparently illusory swings show the difficulty of accurately counting homeless people in the expanse of north Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It illuminated the green expanse between trees and the rocky outcroppings that marked the start of our camp.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
The shooting took place in Wedela, a semi-rural township of brick houses and small businesses, surrounded by wide expanses of land used for mining.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Elordi, who hails from Brisbane, is a little more hopeful about the future of the climate in the context of the film - pointing to other parts where you can see lush expanses of greenery.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"What makes this pattern so fascinating is that evolution keeps arriving at similar cooperative solutions in very different groups and across vast expanses of time," says Dorus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
See Vija Celmins’s expanses of wave-capped oceans, which remain as delicate and ephemeral in drypoint as they are in oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
He had never seen those great shining white expanses of ice and snow.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
Vocabulary lists containing expanse
The Giver
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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