breadth
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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
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
In his “Sand Reckoner,” Archimedes first calculated how many grains of sand would fit across a poppy seed, and then how many poppy seeds would span a finger's breadth.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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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Seaming.—A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.
From Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg
So huge is the mosque that the eyes are deceived within it, and can no longer measure heights or breadths with accuracy.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
The regulation bunting as used in the navy is made in 9 in. widths, and the flag classes in size according to the number of breadths of bunting of which it is composed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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