expansive
Example Sentences
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The most important quality in an applicant was an expansive sense of possibility.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed particularly aware of how expansive the government’s theory could become.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
The film is wide and expansive, but moves smoothly between narrative guardrails.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
To an outsider, it might seem like a gathering centered around a niche fixation, but within this world, fragrance is much more expansive.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
His rooms were at the top of a boarding-house near an expansive puddle, which we skirted without entire success.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing expansive
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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