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Chinese companies hope to tap their vast home market to gather data faster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
During the Miocene, a geological period that lasted for millions of years, a vast lake covered a large portion of the continent.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Eastern Belgium has become Europe's most urgent fire front, with a vast blaze tearing through the High Fens nature reserve for the past four days.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
But the state’s dream of a vast network of green fuel production sites and pipelines serving thousands of hydrogen-powered vehicles across California is a harder sell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
He sat back in his chair, smiling apologetically from across the vast reaches of his desk.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
In a flash of light, the universe had become an infinitely vaster and more interesting place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
“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
But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2017
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker ● 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 ● Jun. 17, 1990
Tokens all these, it may be, of our nearing the vastest valley mankind yet has seen from the height of the tortuous paths it has ever been climbing!
From The Buried Temple by Alfred Sutro
Vocabulary lists containing vast
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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