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“But the vast majority of immigrants without legal status did not swim the Rio Grande,” he wrote in a post on social media.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 4, 2026
For the vast majority of the UK, it will be dry and settled by day with a mixture of cloud and some sunny spells.
From BBC β Nov. 4, 2026
She finally managed to put together the wake at a vast centre in Yopougon known for hosting funeral events, where crowds of mourners converge every Saturday.
From Barron's β Nov. 4, 2026
There will be pressure to boost some line items, in order to replace the vast stocks of U.S. munitions depleted and aircraft destroyed in the Iran war.
From Slate β Nov. 4, 2026
Three towers, each topped with a dome in dusky pink, gave it a look of wit and knowing intelligence, and its vast arched windows with their broad sills gave it solidity and purpose.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Clearly the public can consume both slop and quality entertainment in ever vaster amounts while imposing cost pressures on those who make it.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 6, 2026
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
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
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“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
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker β Feb. 1, 2016
Everyone’s strings are being pulled by someone, with, as Voltaire wrote, silence being “the verdict of the vastest mind.”
From New York Times β Oct. 26, 2010
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
In this enterprise—the vastest that angels could undertake—their substance would be ultimately hotter than the fire and colder than the ice, and they would suffer pangs sharper than death.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
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