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Its premise is that “the modern liberal ordering of the world is exhausted” — meaning not just liberalism in the American political sense but the more capacious philosophical one.
The intellectual right’s war on America’s institutions|Zack Beauchamp|November 19, 2021|Vox
Lithium-11, with its capacious halo, sits right next to the drip line.
A new particle accelerator aims to unlock secrets of bizarre atomic nuclei|Emily Conover|November 15, 2021|Science News
There is no easy redemption here, but these people feel real and capacious and, despite their circumstances, dynamic.
In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity|Kristen Millares Young|September 27, 2021|Washington Post
Faced with such capacious ignorance, our only rational course is to use every means possible, regardless of cost, to try to save all species of life, knowing that if we fail to save enough of the essential ones, we will have no future.
No Species Is an Island - Issue 105: Whale Songs|Roger Payne|September 8, 2021|Nautilus

I likely became a novelist, in part, because novels are deep, capacious.
I Didn't Consider My Marriage Interracial. But I Wasn't Being Totally Honest With Myself|Naima Coster|March 4, 2021|Time
As we were getting ready to repair to his capacious table, we were joined by Claude Lanzmann, the maker of the film Shoah.
My Moments With Ariel Sharon|Seth Lipsky|January 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The final artifact is a live elephant whose capacious appetite is slowly eating into the estate.
Must Reads: ‘How to Survive the Titanic,’ ‘The Limit,’ and More|Lucy Scholes, Kevin Canfield, Mythili Rao|December 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He was simply an artist whose insatiable ambition manifested in “a frighteningly capacious stomach.”
This Week's Hot Reads|Lizzie Crocker|November 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Yet I doubt that she will become a capacious judge with wide-ranging interests and intense curiosity.
Elena Kagan's Surprise Defender|Richard A. Epstein|May 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But George H.W. Bush is a man of capacious and unconditional love, so I imagine that carried him through the day.
How Hillary's Feeling About Caroline|Christopher Buckley|January 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The port is not only capacious, but has very few shoals or dangers in it.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
They are higher, more capacious, and finer buildings than those of Benares, with the exception of the Bisvishas.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
The building is cruciform in shape, and has a fine interior—is lofty, capacious, and cathedral-like.
Our Churches and Chapels|Atticus
He went to a cupboard, and produced a stumpy, but capacious bottle, and three glasses.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks|Bracebridge Hemyng
Loftily poised in ether capacious, Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
The Book of Humorous Verse|Various

British Dictionary definitions for capacious

capacious

/ (kəˈpeɪʃəs) /

adjective

capable of holding much; roomy; spacious

Derived forms of capacious

capaciously, adverbcapaciousness, noun

Word Origin for capacious

C17: from Latin capāx, from Latin capere to take

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