SPRAWLING Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

sprawling

verb

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present participle of sprawl

as in extending

to extend outwards from or as if from a central point The suburbs sprawl for miles beyond the city's downtown.

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as in sitting

to rest with the arms and legs spread out There's no feeling like sprawling out on your bed after a hard day's work.

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Recent Examples of sprawling This adds yet another layer of controversy to the sprawling legal aftermath of the now-defunct 2020 election in Georgia. —

Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 31 May 2026 Less experienced workers can get lost on sprawling teams, line managers can get overwhelmed, and everyone in between can feel rudderless. —

Claire Zillman, Fortune, 30 May 2026 Adam Zimmerman, a law professor at the University of Southern California, told NPR that past examples of mass compensation funds directed by the president, whether related to the Holocaust or the BP oil spill, resolved sprawling class-action lawsuits, which is not the case here. —

Bobby Allyn, NPR, 30 May 2026 Recent investigative reporting by organizations, including Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) and The Insider, revealed a sprawling ecosystem of Russian political influence operations targeting Armenia ahead of the vote. —

Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 The Argentinian group receives funding from the Atlas Network, part of a sprawling global coalition of conservative think tanks that aim to reshape the political landscape from New Zealand and Buenos Aires to New York. —

Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026 Named after John Glenn, the first American in orbit, New Glenn is the rocket that Blue Origin plans to use to launch landers to the moon under NASA’s Artemis program that aims to build a sprawling base near the moon’s south pole. —

Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. —

Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026 Thus Director Park will likely be mulling over the sprawling monster sci-fi Hope, by his countryman Na Hong-Jin, and possibly Léa Mysius’s thriller-romp The Birthday Party, which contains a lot of Park’s trademark black humor. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 May 2026

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Topline Oracle shares hit a 2026 intraday high Monday, extending a furious late-May rally that has recast the database pioneer as a marquee AI-infrastructure player and boosted the fortune of cofounder Larry Ellison, who holds roughly 40% of the company.

— Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Israel’s capture of Beaufort, which sits atop a ridge roughly 2,352 feet above sea level, grants it fire-control views of important highways over the Litani River and territories extending into Israel and Syria.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026