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Sputnik Planitia is a vast glacier made largely of frozen nitrogen and is bigger than Texas and Oklahoma combined.
From Science Daily β Sep. 17, 2026
The decision was announced along with a graph showing the vast majority of Fed policymakers saw at least one more was likely necessary before the end of the year.
From Barron's β Sep. 17, 2026
The vast majority of officials penciled in one more hike this year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 16, 2026
According to the Jewish Federation’s lawsuit, the “Adam and Eve” paintings were part of a vast collection seized from prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker by Hermann Göring, Hitler’s second-in-command.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 16, 2026
Inside was a courtyard and a vast, sun-warmed building, eighteen windows across and five high.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
But what of the vaster machines that will be giving instructions to cities, to nations?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
“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
War—as we then thought the vastest of all wars, not only that had been, but that could ever be—swept over it.
From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by William Meade Dame
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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