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He later planned a counteroffensive that regained a broad expanse of territory in the east.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

"It begs the question, why couldn't it have been tested to the north of the Pacific Ocean, where there is an expanse of international waters?" he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Julia Dawber's home overlooks an expanse of scenic coastline, and she says as many as nine campervans can park up near the shore at any one time.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Authorities and volunteers continued searching Sunday for a man who vanished on May 25 while hiking through a wooded expanse west of Lake Tahoe.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

An expanse of pressed popcorn, of tasteless rice cakes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

"What makes this pattern so fascinating is that evolution keeps arriving at similar cooperative solutions in very different groups and across vast expanses of time," says Dorus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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

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

The water that flows down irrigation canals to some of the West’s biggest expanses of farmland comes courtesy of the federal government for a very low price — even, in some cases, for free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

For most of history these man-made enclaves remained very small, surrounded by expanses of untamed nature.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari