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sprawl

[sprawl] / sprɔl /


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“We really honed in on the data sprawl problem. The lack of visibility to data that the enterprise has, and all the problems that that created.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Little by little, Bordeaux’s sprawl has reached into the rolling hills of some of France’s most celebrated vineyards — Médoc to the north, Entre-Deux-Mers to the east, Pessac-Léognan to the south.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

But beneath the sprawl, the movie is essentially a two-man character study.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Activists across the U.S. are coalescing around concerns about AI-related job losses, data-center sprawl and AI-fueled cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mabel, Gerald Jr., and Harold sprawl across them, tugging a tattered wool blanket and three old quilts from each other.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The mansion, which was built in 1997 and has three stories, is situated on a 2.5-acre parcel and sprawls 18,922 square feet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Disability and sickness payments in the U.K. show how the system sprawls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The property, which was first listed by broker Joseph Montanaro for $3.3 million in 2025, sprawls across 4,965 square feet and is situated on a 13,672-square-foot lot.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

But when you walk up on his roof, a scenic view of his home city sprawls beneath Todd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

By late summer, the Clarity Act had sprawled to more than 600 pages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Blue skies extended to the horizon, and a small colony of tents, camper vans and motorhomes sprawled out across the lush alfalfa fields.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

They spent hours sprawled on the deck, broiling under the daytime sun, then chilled at night, the fishermen said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Behind the Peace River plant, sprawled out across a massive lawn, and behind a chain-link fence, were the ruins of a processing infrastructure.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Tano is sprawled on the sand below, in the middle of the mess.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Meanwhile, Alpine Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly secured a sprawling four-bedroom, four-bathroom sky residence measuring 3,712 square feet, with a listing price of $4.9 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

A combination would bring under one roof Musk’s main business pursuits, streamlining the sprawling empire of the world’s richest person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Financial Times leads on the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, as he considers merging his two companies SpaceX and Tesla into a "sprawling conglomerate spanning rockets, satellites, social media, robots and cars".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It was a great sprawling growth, this tannery.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya


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