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- noun Plural form of
expanse .
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Examples
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White's latest pictures feature solitary figures framed in expanses of white paper.
Keinyo White Post 2010
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That would mark the ice sheets -- defined as expanses of deep, long-term ice larger than 20,000 square miles -- as the largest contributors to sea level rise, outstripping melting from Earth's other frozen reservoirs, namely mountain glaciers.
Greenland and Antarctica melting faster than anyone expected 2011
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That would mark the ice sheets - defined as expanses of deep, long-term ice larger than 20,000 square miles - as the largest contributors to sea level rise, outstripping melting from Earth's other frozen reservoirs, namely mountain glaciers.
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(Psalms 102: 19; Ezekiel 17: 23) + Shechakim, "expanses," with reference to the extent of heaven.
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Over the lively course of its English career, the park has held farm animals, hunted animals, people, military equipment, large expanses of nature, and, in its parking guises, automobiles.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Over the lively course of its English career, the park has held farm animals, hunted animals, people, military equipment, large expanses of nature, and, in its parking guises, automobiles.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This week, President Obama announced a sweeping new offshore drilling policy, opening “vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling” for the first time in 25 years.
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Here in FL, they seem to require that schools be built on big tracts and being no more than two-stories tall, plus large expanses of athletic fields.
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Here in FL, they seem to require that schools be built on big tracts and being no more than two-stories tall, plus large expanses of athletic fields.
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Today, Obama announced a sweeping new offshore drilling policy, opening “vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling” for the first time.
Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil 2010
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