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by a wide margin

ADVERB
well
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adequately appropriately completely easily far freely fully properly quite right smoothly thoroughly
STRONG
considerably substantially
WEAK
abundantly amply becomingly effortlessly entirely extremely fittingly greatly heartily highly luxuriantly plentifully rather readily satisfactorily somewhat suitably very much wholly
Antonyms
STRONGEST
difficultly inadequately inappropriately incompletely insufficiently partially unsuitably
STRONG
insignificantly slightly
WEAK
badly incapably unpleasantly

Example Sentences

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With the stock’s gain on Monday, it has edged up 0.7% this year to outperform the software sector, which has been hurt by worries about AI displacement, by a wide margin.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Horton’s fund has beaten the S&P 500 by a wide margin since its February 2022 inception, up 111% cumulatively versus the S&P 500’s 65%.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Crockett has led several polls, at times by a wide margin.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026

That missed the 2.56 billion yuan expected by analysts in a FactSet poll by a wide margin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

But it was still a new course record by a wide margin, and Tom Bolles remained undefeated on Lake Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown