large-scale
adjective
1
: involving many people or things
Their equipment is suitable for large-scale production.
2
: covering or involving a large area
a large-scale map
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The report is just a small sector of the large-scale issue in Florida’s condo and property insurance crisis.
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David Fischer, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
Their viewpoint is that with the byzantine array of a large-scale mathematical and computational underpinning, there is indubitably a chance that unanticipated combinations and permutations are going to occur.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Such large-scale research has been difficult, particularly during the most deadly waves of the pandemic when clinic restrictions and medical emergencies obstructed consistent testing.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
One of the show’s earliest large-scale works, of the kind called a thangka painting in Tibet, is a portrait of the Indian monk Atisha (A.D. 982 to A.D. 1054), who was instrumental in introducing later schools of Buddhism — Mahayana, Vajrayana — to Tibet.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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David Fischer, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
Their viewpoint is that with the byzantine array of a large-scale mathematical and computational underpinning, there is indubitably a chance that unanticipated combinations and permutations are going to occur.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Such large-scale research has been difficult, particularly during the most deadly waves of the pandemic when clinic restrictions and medical emergencies obstructed consistent testing.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
One of the show’s earliest large-scale works, of the kind called a thangka painting in Tibet, is a portrait of the Indian monk Atisha (A.D. 982 to A.D. 1054), who was instrumental in introducing later schools of Buddhism — Mahayana, Vajrayana — to Tibet.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Large-scale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/large-scale. Accessed 1 Jan. 2025.
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