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expanse

[ik-spans] / ɪkˈspæns /


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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

Under the arrangement, the federal government would give about an acre on the western boundary of Yosemite National Park’s nearly 750,000-acre expanse, nestled in California’s Sierra Nevada.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The cafe is a cacophony of color in an expanse of desert brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Until two years later, seemingly out of nowhere, an orchid sprouted, a shock of blue in this vast expanse of empty dirt.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

When you are battling over expanses of empty desert, progress can be hard to see.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Much-needed rain brought some respite Monday to firefighters on their fourth day battling Belgium's worst wildfire in a century, which has scorched vast expanses of nature reserve on the German border.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

I admired the long expanses of lawns mown in precise lines and the huge, graceful trees.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter


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