- present participle of broaden.
broadening
Example Sentences
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After several years during which the largest U.S. technology stocks have driven investors’ gains, performance and opportunities have been broadening this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Moreover, the broadening of earnings delivery in the second quarter is a further indication that this earnings-growth cycle is healthy, Jamner added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tim Wilkins, the managing director of Intertanko, a trade body representing tanker owners, said the industry was "facing a broadening, deteriorating, and increasingly complex security situation".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“What we’re trying to understand is to what extent are these shocks broadening in their effects, broadening in their impact on prices that are quite far removed from it,” Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Compared to the normal brain, Algernons had decreased in weight and there was a general smoothing out of the cerebral convolutions as well as a deepening and broadening of brain fissures.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
