writ large

Idioms  

1. Signified, expressed, or embodied with greater magnitude, as in That book on Lincoln is simply an article writ large. [Mid-1600s]

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Example Sentences

It’s that rarest of investigative-journalism properties: a consistently profitable enterprise that commands the levels of advertising expenditures that have otherwise plunged across traditional TV and informational media writ large.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

Now imagine that kind of corrupted, perverted system of justice writ large.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

She worries more, however, about a similar yearning and loss of confidence among Americans writ large.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“Tech writ large is now” 40% of global equity value, Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, said in a note emailed Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Earlier in this chapter I quoted Popper’s claim in 1958 that science ‘is common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton