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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

A vast open space, where some 50 of Be’eri’s most desirable houses stood, is an empty expanse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

This Hampden was a bombed-out expanse of water towers, rusted railroad tracks, sagging warehouses and factories with the doors boarded up and the windows broken out.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Once master of vast expanses of northern, central and western Africa, France has played a crucial role in the continent's post‑colonial history, repeatedly intervening militarily since the early 1960s.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

It all looked exactly the same to me—green farms, thick expanses of trees.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken


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