as in extensive
having considerable extent
as the river nears the end of its long journey to the sea it becomes quite expansive in breadth
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Recent Examples of expansive
But our favorite design moment is the reading nook set up in one of the expansive portal windows overlooking the backyard trees.
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Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2026
Tubi is continuing its 2026 rollout with an expansive slate of new originals and library titles arriving throughout February.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
Flash forward a few years and Stapleview has evolved into something far more expansive — a talent management company and multimedia comedy studio, run by Grey and Daniel Lantsman, that aims to be something of a disruptor in entertainment.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Design mentorship as a network, not a person, by supporting constellations of mentors and sponsors to meet expansive needs.
—Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 27 Jan. 2026
Tubi is continuing its 2026 rollout with an expansive slate of new originals and library titles arriving throughout February.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
Flash forward a few years and Stapleview has evolved into something far more expansive — a talent management company and multimedia comedy studio, run by Grey and Daniel Lantsman, that aims to be something of a disruptor in entertainment.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Design mentorship as a network, not a person, by supporting constellations of mentors and sponsors to meet expansive needs.
—Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expansive
Adjective
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Palisades Charter High School will return to its main seaside campus Tuesday morning, more than one year after the deadly Palisades fire destroyed nearly 40% of the school and forced students and faculty into temporary classrooms during extensive reconstruction and environmental remediation.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
24 Jan. 2026
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The Nevada County Arts Council does an extensive survey to track the creative economy locally.—
Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The project also reflects Beijing’s broader effort to anchor long-term energy security with low-carbon baseload power.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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That last-minute development is reviving debate about the extent of state support for Vanke, one of the last major developers to have avoided an outright default after a broader property market slump sparked record debt failures in recent years.—
Bloomberg News,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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First found in the 1930s, this interpretation was later validated by a wide variety of laboratory experiments.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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Low-resolution Surveying involves gathering surface-level information about a wide variety of topics—knowing a little about a lot of stuff.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Theo could slide from being engaged in an activity to overwhelmed in an instant — sweeping crayons off tables or having severe tantrums that sometimes required teachers to guide classmates out of the room.—
Mayo Clinic News Network,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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Planned in the sweeping open pasturelands of rural Colusa County, near the town of Maxwell, if completed Sites would be the largest new reservoir built in California since 1979, when the federal government opened New Melones Lake in the Sierra Foothills between Sonora and Angels Camp.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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But economists appeared skeptical about the effectiveness of Beijing’s plans to boost services spending, cautioning that the plan’s success hinges on deeper reforms to raise household income and strengthen social welfare.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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The influential investor has the respect of Wall Street and deep knowledge of complex financial markets.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Expansive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expansive. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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