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[brawd] / brɔd /








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After they selected a piece by established L.A. artist Edgar Arceneaux, Ryan urged the group to revisit MAC3’s mandate to support a broad range of local artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Airbnb has millions of listings and plenty of repeat customers, but no broad rewards program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Mesenchymal stem cell therapies and extracellular vesicles derived from these cells may also provide broad immune-regulating effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Choosing a laureate who enjoys broad consensus, such as an individual or organisation working to protect children or humanitarian efforts, would be less likely to stoke Trump's ire, experts say.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He smiled at me, the broad, slow smile I had loved since he was a child.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

There are three broads areas of concern the players want addressing:

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Us old broads are trying to learn the new technology because, I mean, we’re kind of trapped,” said Linda Harner, whom I met at the Culver City Senior Center, where she takes a Spanish class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2022

This is a workout for ladies, by which she means older broads who might appreciate the occasional low-impact leg lifts.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019

“I think they just bonded over overcoming their experiences, and being great broads, and being tremendous mothers,” she explained.

From Fox News ● Nov. 30, 2018

At the broads of Clashmore, the highest water-mark to which the inflowing tide comes, one can easily imagine themselves upon an inland lake.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger

The Grammy Awards celebrate the hottest current stars but also pay homage to older legendary acts, giving it broader appeal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But there is also a broader concern, he said, that prediction markets with heavy betting could influence how jurors think about a case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The financial sector, and bank stocks in particular, are viewed by many as a leading indicator of the health of broader stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

The findings also suggest that growers may need more comprehensive detection methods capable of identifying a broader range of bacterial threats.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The embankment itself was much broader than he had realized.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

In court earlier on Wednesday, Pike's lawyers secured a legal win by convincing a judge to order the state to preserve the broadest amount of evidence possible from the US death row inmate's botched execution.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“From an investment perspective, this may reinforce the company’s competitive positioning as the broadest retail ecosystem in the United States.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

For investors, this is a reminder of two basic principles: You can’t judge a fund by its name alone, and diverging even slightly from the broadest exposure to stocks can give you startlingly different results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

That may not necessarily be unique in the broadest span of TV history, but it’s rare enough for the layperson to recognize the difference between a James Burrows show and those of other directors.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

They come from the bunk next to mine—they belong to a Candor boy, Al, the largest and broadest of all the initiates.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth




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