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wide

[wahyd] / waɪd /


ADJECTIVE
off-course
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
on-course on-target


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Spreads for an AI basket have been trading wide to levels for the broader investment-grade corporate index, as seen in the chart below from Morgan Stanley.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Lake Como is 29 miles long and 2.5 miles wide in some parts - you also come across a yacht club and an 'Aero Club' for the sea-planes that take off at regular intervals.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

He’s wide awake when he should be asleep because the middle of the night also happens to be his favorite time to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Rams wide receiver Davante Adams will miss six to 10 weeks with a ruptured hamstring and Kobie Turner will be placed on injured reserve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

As it flew over us, it made a wide circle, dipped its wings, and flew on.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Great Britain is integrated with wider European gas markets and physically linked to the continent through undersea pipelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

That means about 99% of the contacts have been traced and isolated, in order to prevent Ebola from spreading to the wider population.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

For the fourth quarter, Alaska Air expects an adjusted loss of $2.00 to $2.50 a share, wider than the $1.19 loss analysts expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

SpaceX credited new cloud services agreements, wider adoption of its Grok chatbot and its acquisition of Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

I open the door wider and smile at Helena, who is shivering in her coat, peeking around one side of the toilets.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

“Wildwood” is both the widest release and “highest-profile title” Fathom has ever done, according to Jason Brenek, Fathom’s chief executive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The spread between France’s 10-year government bond and Germany’s equivalent reached its widest last week in available Bloomberg data, dating back to 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Its 22% discount was one of the widest of any U.S. closed-end fund that invested in public securities, according to the fund’s semiannual report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Give your eyes around 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness and look towards the widest unobstructed area of sky possible.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“They have the widest backs. They measure them. How do you feel, Tenente?”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway


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