breadth
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Analysts say the market’s narrow breadth poses a risk to investors, with returns reliant on a small group of stocks that can swing wildly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
For investors who own fewer shares of the market’s winners than the benchmark, weak breadth can of course be a problem.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
In fairness, Roberts did seem to recognize some problems with the breadth of the immunity that the oil companies were asking for, as did Justice Gorsuch.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Monét’s sense of rejuvenation is easy to feel across “Frequency of Love,” a sprawling and vibrant new album out Friday on which this seasoned multitasker showcases the breadth of her talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
John B. Read’s lighting now makes less marvelous effects from the depths and breadths of the Met stage.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2014
Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Skull: Braincase less inflated; nasals truncated posteriorly as opposed to rounded; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths less; rostrum shorter but narrower; upper incisors narrower and shorter.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
Where the bogs are not found there are wide breadths of forests, and very interesting as well as impassable forests they are.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
The hills again opened, and there were flourishing breadths of turnips, and people digging potatoes, an article of food and export which was introduced by the missionaries forty years ago.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "B"
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Mythology
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