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Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world and has been gripped by a vast humanitarian crisis since the civil war broke out in 2014.
From Barron's β Oct. 5, 2026
It was viewed as a critical tool for sorting through vast quantities of information, the people said.
From BBC β Oct. 5, 2026
The vast majority of degree programs across the country meet this requirement, according to two new analyses.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 5, 2026
For now efforts are aimed at culling the vast deer herd.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 4, 2026
The process releases vast amounts of energy—it’s the energy from fusion that gives the sun its light and heat.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
The temple/palace system in Egypt therefore operated on a much vaster scale than anywhere in Mesopotamia.
From Textbooks β Apr. 19, 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
Once it was dark, we remained by the instruments and saw the stars in their vaster orbits above us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
“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
But one of the vastest chasms might be cultural.
From New York Times β Jan. 20, 2017
Baggage handling should be neither seen nor heard, though it’s the vastest operation of all.
From The New Yorker β 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 β Jun. 17, 1990
Finding myself near you, Maurice, in a house containing one of the vastest libraries in the world, I acquired a taste for reading and a love of study.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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