expanse
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The Arctic Ocean is covered by a vast expanse of frozen seawater that expands and contracts with the seasons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
They lived across a large expanse of Europe and western and central Asia, and sometimes overlapped with our species, Homo sapiens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 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
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
It was a seemingly endless expanse of grand rooms, like a mirror reflected in a mirror.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
People sometimes tell me about reading Salon avidly in their youth, how it felt like connecting to something exhilarating and cool and a bit crazy in the strange new expanses of the internet.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
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
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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