Greater
designating a city or country and its adjacent area: Greater New York; Greater Los Angeles.
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The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been Greater.
And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far Greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTDuke kept running for offices and losing by ever-Greater margins.
The hope was that Greater transparency about performance would drive results.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future | Jonah Edelman | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTVeterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the Greater whole.
A Veteran’s View: NYC Cold War Between Cops and City Hall | Matt Gallagher | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the Greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouThe clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a Greater perspiration than his predecessor.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensTobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) Greater extent than most plants.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the Greater portion of mankind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockNever then was there a moment in which there was Greater need for sane and serious thought.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for Greater
/ (ˈɡreɪtə) /
(of a city) considered with the inclusion of the outer suburbs: Greater London
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