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"Scotty's rib contains a vast network of mineralized blood vessels that has never before been observed in a fossil."
From Science Daily β Sep. 24, 2026
“It’s a vast game space…we don’t even know what percent is explored.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 23, 2026
They deduce that, overnight, instruments have recorded a tightening cluster of earthquakes beneath Yellowstone’s vast caldera, which is roughly 55–70 kilometers across.
From Science Daily β Sep. 22, 2026
On the other side of Scotland, Argyll and Bute is a geographically vast, rural council - stretching from the Glasgow commuter zone to tiny islands like Tiree and Iona.
From BBC β Sep. 22, 2026
The whole tip of the Mountain was hollow, making a vast cavern of rock, snow, and ice.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
The lands whose governance was at stake are vaster than any nation, and it’s possible the consequences of the vote will be felt for eons.
From Salon β Aug. 19, 2024
And while disposing treated water in the ocean is common practice for nuclear plants, critics have pointed out that the amount being released from Fukushima is on an unprecedented, far vaster scale.
From BBC β Aug. 24, 2023
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks β Apr. 19, 2023
There’s this interest in the deep time, and in some ways, it’s both an acknowledgement of our individual insignificance but also our lineage that is much longer and vaster than is usually acknowledged.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 28, 2022
Pippin gazed in growing wonder at the great stone city, vaster and more splendid than anything that he had dreamed of; greater and stronger than Isengard, and far more beautiful.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Your handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world,” Zhou told Nixon as they rode to the guest quarters that Tuesday.
From Washington Post β Feb. 20, 2022
But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.
From New York Times β Jan. 20, 2017
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker β Feb. 1, 2016
Today, Ober owns several stores in a South Coast Plaza that is the vastest and most prosperous of all of Orange County’s many temples of shopping.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 17, 1990
The constitution of matter, speaking now from an admittedly materialistic standpoint, that of the physical sciences, is a subject of vastest interest and importance to mankind, for human existence is material.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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