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Example Sentences

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The states have an important and ongoing role in regulating gaming writ large.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

The bot boom in academia writ large puts on display the insecurity of students just as much as it does their laziness.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

Pressley has introduced the Ending Administrative Wage Garnishment Act, which would “protect borrowers by ending garnishment as a tool writ large for student debt collection by the federal government, regardless of who’s in office.”

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

"It's why I am calling on anyone with a platform to be very responsible with their rhetoric, not to identify or target the Jewish community. That is antisemitism writ large," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

Message; movement; information; form; Darwin; Mendel; Morgan: all was writ into that precarious assemblage of molecules.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee