expanse
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The 29,000-acre expanse of savannah and woodlands sits on the city’s edge, near two airports, yet it is home to lions, zebras and Maasai giraffes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Generations ago, the Central Valley was a vast expanse of lush meadows, wetlands and lakes fed by melting Sierra Nevada snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The country has eight patrol ships to protect an expanse of water the size of California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Not everything is a playoff, championship or otherwise high-profile sports event that we will naturally scour the viewing expanse we call television to find,” Corbelli said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
A black expanse lay on one side of the road, fringed by distant specks of light—the lake, again.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Behind it, a revolving turntable exposed rubble-strewn outdoor expanses and the grim, stony interiors of Macbeth’s castle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
New Yorkers take part in a snowball fight in Brooklyn's McCarren Park, as a major winter storm sweeps through vast expanses of the United States.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
For most of history these man-made enclaves remained very small, surrounded by expanses of untamed nature.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The Giver
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