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The state has fewer zoning laws and environmental and labor requirements, and has vast swaths of loosely regulated land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Alaska's vast distances, remote communities and mail-ballot deadlines mean counting takes longer.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Cat and the kids dive into their cardboard boxes to find the misplaced Go-Backer and discover vast, amazing worlds informed by their interests and imaginations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, head of Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the results are changing how researchers understand the preservation of molecular structures over vast timescales and under harsh conditions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

And yet, when he’d caught sight of the cliffs from the scree slope, they’d seemed just a wrinkle in the vast, tumbled river of ice.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“The Jewish diaspora in Israel is vaster and more diverse than people think,” Barhany said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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 ● Aug. 19, 2024

Beyond the disappearing local newspapers and women’s vaster choices, I couldn’t hazard a guess about the fate of pageants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

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 ● Aug. 24, 2023

Shadow turned a corner, and knew himself to be in another room, even vaster than the first.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

“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 ● Feb. 20, 2022

Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.

From The New Yorker ● 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 ● 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 ● Jun. 17, 1990

But there can be no movement of infinity and of an infinite body, and therefore no diurnal revolution of that vastest Primum Mobile.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert