large-scale
Example Sentences
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Though they sometimes escalate into larger-scale military drills, these maneuvers, which once dominated news headlines, quieted to a din as they became routine.
Astronomers have uncovered signs that our Sun may have taken part in a large-scale movement of similar stars that left the inner regions of the Milky Way about 4 to 6 billion years ago.
From Science Daily
Nineteenth-century Italian operas are rarely concerned with large-scale musical cohesion or radical topics.
“I don’t think you will see large-scale investment without settling debt issues,” says Rachel Lyngaas, a senior policy researcher at RAND.
From Barron's
The company would have to take on more than $60 billion in debt — raising concerns among Hollywood workers about large-scale cost cuts and layoffs.
From Los Angeles Times
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