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- adjective especially spread in a fan shape
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Examples
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Walkable suburbs are some of America's best places to live, and they provide their sprawling, spread-out siblings with a model for renewal.
How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs Richard Florida 2010
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Movies are mass culture with an audience comic companies can only dream of, and, inevitably, that means the audience for a movie is more "average," more spread-out, and, yes, less geeky.
[GUEST POST] Gabriel McKee on Mark Millar's Kick-Ass...and Why it Stinks 2010
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He pushed himself off the spread-out sleeping bag, his back scolding him.
Extortionist Craig Lancaster 2011
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Many are relatively characterless places, with spread-out working class populations living in cookie-cutter houses on large lots and commuting long distances to work.
How SoHo Can Save the Suburbs Richard Florida 2010
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Classic North Carolina is a spread-out, decentralized state of small cities, small towns, small factories and small farms, said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina.
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He pushed himself off the spread-out sleeping bag, his back scolding him.
Extortionist Craig Lancaster 2011
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Doug Linde said in a conference call with analysts last month that law firms were looking to reduce their overall footprint by 10% to 15% both because they no longer need many spread-out conference and file rooms and because they have yet to rehire laid-off employees.
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It is a spread-out, multicharactered, multigenerational nothing.
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Alexandra Carr 2010
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State Sen. James C. Rosapepe (D-Prince George's) applauded steps to integrate the campus with the surrounding community, but acknowledged that the city's spread-out, traffic-choked main artery is far from the dense, walkable streetscape that could soon buffer the two.
College Park town center plan revived as U-Md. negotiates with a new developer 2010
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It is a spread-out, multicharactered, multigenerational nothing.
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010
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