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A volunteer guard stood watch from within, peering out into the parking lot, scanning for activity, opening the door just one body’s width to let people slide in, or out, as needed.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
An annuity owner finds out the width of his door when he tries to walk through it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
"The next step is to characterize abnormal functional and structural brain states along these pathways to build more detailed models for setting patient-specific stimulation parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and pulse width, for precision medicine."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
There will be no change to the width of the band and the level at which it is centered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Beto watched the square of light move half the width of a floorboard.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
For each material, you can choose among a variety of depths and widths.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Authorities have been working to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the debris to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can be brought out.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2023
In the study, pigeons were shown a stimulus, which could include lines of various widths and angles, concentric rings and sectioned rings.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
I could no longer use only my eyes to guess heights and widths and all that.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
Vocabulary lists containing width
Geometry - Introductory
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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Geometry (Base List)
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