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Appeared in the May 29, 2026, print edition as 'Gap in Profits, Worker Pay Widens'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Appeared in the March 4, 2026, print edition as 'Iran Escalates Attacks on Gulf Nations as Conflict Widens'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Colorless Panorama Widens Vistas of Picasso You might expect “Picasso Black and White,” at the Guggenheim, to feel like a glamorous gimmick — the museum-blockbuster version of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2012

"Widens the band's influence-pool to include Queen, the Zombies and Wings" – avclub.com.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2012

Hard the task: your prison-chamber Widens not for lifted latch Till the giant thews and sinews Meet their Godlike overmatch.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George