expanse
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They lived across a large expanse of Europe and western and central Asia, and sometimes overlapped with our species, Homo sapiens.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Near the upper center of the scene, the Po Valley stands out as a broad expanse of green and brown.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The cafe is a cacophony of color in an expanse of desert brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
One of the most memorable photographs on view was taken by Jeanne-Claude, printed large and picturing a wide expanse of landscape, with cows grazing near the fence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
She didn’t wait for anything, not even to study the flat expanse of blue water.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
People sometimes tell me about reading Salon avidly in their youth, how it felt like connecting to something exhilarating and cool and a bit crazy in the strange new expanses of the internet.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
It ended with a lovely appearance by a black horse all in the expanses of MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Data centres vary wildly in size, ranging from ones that fit inside a garden shed to others covering vast expanses of land.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
But its endless expanses have been swept by panic since an outbreak of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, which was declared a national disaster in February.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Chinese dresses at that time were dartless, cut as if women did not have breasts; these young doctors, unaccustomed to decorations, may have seen their chests as black expanses with no reference points for flowers.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Giver
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