wide-scale

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wide-scale

  1. Alternative form of widescale.
    • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 251–252:
      The railway's civil engineers and architects have embarked on a wide-scale scheme for minor station improvements—quite apart, of course, from continued development of major schemes.
    • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Remnant: Creators Codex entry:
      The Jardaan are a mysterious species or faction responsible for building the bots and technology known as the Remnant. According to recordings and findings from Khi Tasira, they were interested in not only wide-scale terraforming but the creation of sentient life. One of their successful creations, the angara, were seeded on multiple worlds in the Heleus Cluster.

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