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"While we are very grateful for the wide expression of condolences, the family would ask that this initial service is limited to those closest to Ann."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
While there is no “normal” band of salary ranges, some companies post ranges that are not just tens of thousands of dollars wide, but sometimes feature a 100% difference.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The tub edge should be wide enough to sit on and swing a leg over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
I was raised near the shore of Chicago’s slice of Lake Michigan, a body of water wide and blue enough to pass for the sea.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
People step aside, giving him a wide berth.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
But there are other possibilities, including a decline in asset prices to bring them into line with the performance of the wider economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Engineers have traditionally prevented this interference by increasing the distance between antennas, but wider spacing creates a different set of problems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Jerome Mayhew, Conservative MP for Broadland and Fakenham, called the news "devastating" and said it could have wider cost implications for Norfolk farmers.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Wood thinks investors are missing that there is more “pull-through into higher-value Microsoft services” through the company’s business model, and believes Azure can drive adoption across its wider software portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Seeking security in military superiority, they recruited ever larger armies and navies, piled up more and more of the latest new weapons, and built wider and stronger fortifications along their national borders.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
“It’s a cyclical roll that gets set up when a boat is taking even a 4-foot wave cyclically over and over on the beam,” Elfers said, referring to the widest point of a boat’s hull.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The margin of the EPS beat was the widest since the first quarter of 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
And so far in 2026, the stock is underperforming the S&P 500 by the widest margin since 1990, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The scandal has been described as one of the widest miscarriages of justice in the British legal history.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
He smiled the widest, most real smile I had seen since day one.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
