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“Customers are unwilling to make commitments to anything other than the shortest term due to the vast uncertainty.”
From MarketWatch β Nov. 2, 2026
In Arizona, the vast majority of voters must already present identification when registering to vote.
From Barron's β Nov. 1, 2026
As so often happens in Scotland, the alleged trail immediately vanished into a vast stretch of bog with no obvious way forward.
From Slate β Nov. 1, 2026
"Evidence of systematic violence is extremely rare in deep prehistory. The vast majority comes from periods of settled farming communities thousands of years after hunter-gather societies like our Neanderthals."
From Science Daily β Oct. 31, 2026
To the east all the way to the edge of the Deep Forest, lay the vast sunlit woods where the prey grow fat in autumn, and berries and nuts are plentiful.
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 β 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 β Aug. 19, 2024
In a flash of light, the universe had become an infinitely vaster and more interesting place.
From Los Angeles Times β 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 β Aug. 24, 2023
But then, this past September, Susan had transferred from the local school to the vaster, supposedly superior one in Garden City.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
“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
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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