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capacious

[kuh-pey-shuhs] / kəˈpeɪ ʃəs /


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For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Theatergoers of today rarely if ever encounter the workings of a mind so capacious in its interests and abilities as his.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2025

In the three works by Ibarra on the program, she proved a capacious sonic visionary.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2025

“The city needs to develop a sense of using its capacious authority to maximize the welfare of its own people,” he told me.

From Slate Feb. 20, 2025

Glancing around the helicopter’s capacious interior, I tried to fix the names of my teammates in my memory.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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