expanse
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The country has eight patrol ships to protect an expanse of water the size of California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
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
“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
It’s spray-painted in red on the blank expanse of wall above the staircase leading to the second story—that large X with each arm continued at a right angle.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
Photos shared by the agency on social media showed the snow-lined highway littered with boulders and debris and expanses of it buckled and broken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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