wide berth

Example Sentences

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If I wanted to invest in emerging markets right now, I’d buy small amounts of several of those and give the indexes and broad emerging-markets funds a wide berth.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

Producers then took a wide berth around the region—until Comstock showed up with new technology, data and Jones’s blessing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

“With this much activity, transnational criminal organizations have a wide berth to operate and exploit vulnerabilities, and the defendants charged in this indictment took full advantage,” Eddy Wang, special agent in charge with the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

"While the First Amendment generally gives politicians wide berth to lie, the court has been much more restrictive of First Amendment freedoms when IP rights are at stake," Lemley said.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024

Then she backed away, giving me a wide berth, only turning to dash into the morgue at the last moment.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda