wide-reaching

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Since her election in March last year, the 42-year-old Zimbabwean former swimmer has launched a wide-reaching consultation on the future of the Olympic movement, while remaining tight-lipped about her own opinion on political issues.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

A genre as wide-reaching and weird as this one doesn’t need golden statues to be legitimized.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025

The districts must also follow the federal Voting Rights Act and group together “communities of interest,” a wide-reaching term of art for people who share languages, cultures, backgrounds, interests, ways of life or other traits.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

Since it’s impossible for volunteer moderators, much less the broader company, to effectively screen all user-generated inputs at all times, this wide-reaching hurdle is intended to shield Reddit from any possible violations.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025

Characterized by the thoroughgoing, wide-reaching scholarship for which Professor Robertson is internationally noted, but also by his fine common sense, felicity of diction and strength and beauty of style.

From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds