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The country currently imports the vast majority of its fruit and vegetables, with only 6% of those served in its schools grown in Wales.
From BBC β Nov. 11, 2026
Time dilation refers to the apparent stretching of events over time when viewed across vast cosmic distances.
From Science Daily β Nov. 11, 2026
To date, the vast majority of research on the six peptides now permitted for compounding has been in animals or individual cells and tissues.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 11, 2026
The news soothed worries about the company's health after suffering heavy selling last month amid speculation that it could struggle to finance its vast debt pile as borrowing costs continued to rise.
From Barron's β Nov. 11, 2026
But I couldn't tell whether we were drifting toward them or eastward into the vast Bering Sea.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
“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
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 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
Every object forming the wide sweep of the view was on the vastest and most majestic scale.
From Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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