breadth
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The breadth of Patekar's career showcases the wide range of his work.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The breadth and depth of AstraZeneca’s drug pipeline means those fears seem misplaced and the U.K. company is unlikely to share Roche’s fate, the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“On 30 years of monthly data, breadth at today’s level has typically been with a year-over-year gain of about 30%, leaving the group materially below where revisions would imply,” they said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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
Hearing him come, Odysseus’ son pulled on his snowy tunic over the skin, gathered his long cape about his breadth of shoulder like a captain, the heir of King Odysseus.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
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Tympanic bullae larger and markedly more inflated; nasals longer; zygomatic and mastoidal breadths greater; rostrum longer and more depressed; upper incisors longer and wider; molariform teeth smaller.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
At greater distances they became much more sensible, but kept very nearly the same proportion of their breadths and intervals which they had at their first appearing.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
Unploughed, unsown, by scythe unshorn, The poor forsaken farm-fields lie, Once rich and rife with golden corn And pale-green breadths of rye.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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