sprawling
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Dave Karger says “there’s no shortage of outstanding work this year, from Olivia Wilde’s impressively contained ‘The Invite’ to the Javiers’ sprawling international epic ‘La Bola Negra.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
In the sprawling former industrial city of Osasco, shuttered factories have given way to a shopping malls and delivery app tech companies in what is now dubbed São Paulo's "Silicon Valley."
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Now, the U.S.-backed government in Caracas is carving up Rincón’s sprawling Grupo Lamar conglomerate and allowing outside investors to manage pieces of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Over five books, it grows into a sprawling story of war, power and morally ambiguous immortals, in a formula that leaves its audience of mostly young women swooning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Then we traveled by train to Lahore, where my dadi lived on a sprawling village farm outside the city, complete with chickens, cows, and fields of turnip greens.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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