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 29,000-acre expanse of savannah and woodlands sits on the city’s edge, near two airports, yet it is home to lions, zebras and Maasai giraffes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The cafe is a cacophony of color in an expanse of desert brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Even the wide expanse of stars normally visible in the unpolluted winter sky was hidden behind rain clouds on that gloomy day.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
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
From up there, Tally saw bare stretches among the flowers, expanses of dry, sandy earth.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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