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wide-open

[wahyd-oh-puhn] / ˈwaɪdˈoʊ pən /
ADJECTIVE
lacking strict enforcement of laws
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ADJECTIVE
opened to the full extent
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Example Sentences

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Glenn’s raw emotion and her triple axel are her calling cards while trying to stand out in the wide-open women’s field.

From Los Angeles Times

Kaori Sakamoto will be looking to avoid another Olympics upset as the Japanese figure skating star takes to the ice in the wide-open women's singles starting Tuesday.

From Barron's

But between the creature's rapidly flapping wings and wide-open mouth, he couldn't figure out how to grab it.

From Literature

Somewhere deep in the limbic system, a synapse fires like a flare, tracing the old circuitry of migration and memory — that annual pull toward the wide-open deserts of the American Southwest.

From Los Angeles Times

From where I’m standing, all I can see is ocean and pavement and wide-open gray sky.

From Literature