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breadth

[bredth, bretth, breth] / brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ /




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That’s what expanding breadth looks like, as a bull market supported by several sectors is much sturdier than one balanced on a tower of parabolic semiconductor stocks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

With its exhaustive narrative breadth and action set pieces that only a budget of a cool $250 million could afford, the fact that “The Odyssey” exists at all is intended to feel like a miracle.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

Founded in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, the gallery opened a New York outpost this spring with a pair of shows that highlighted the breadth of its homeland’s creativity while extolling its culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Increasingly, individuals – particularly earlier in their careers, she says - want to build a breadth of experience faster, rather than follow a single, linear path.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

But in spite of his immense wisdom and his mysterious breadth, he had a human burden, an earthly condition that kept him involved in the small problems of daily life.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 Durrant, Stephen D.

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 Spears, John R.

If there hadn't been close on to two full breadths in each of his legs, I never could have got it out.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne




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