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

Moreover, American courts have given presidents a wide berth in using their power to grant pardons and reprieves.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 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

The crowd had almost dispersed now, the stragglers giving the monumental figure of Grawp a wide berth as he cuddled Hagrid, whose howls of grief were still echoing across the water.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling