wide-reaching

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If this technology is brought into real-world use, it could have wide-reaching effects.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

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

The poll found that the fires had a wide-reaching effect on the physical and mental health of county residents, including those who lived far from the disaster zones.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

The amplifications come amid concerns that Musk, who has taken an increasingly extreme tone, has an enormously wide-reaching platform.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

In the process described we attain for the first time to what is indispensable in the direct description of broad fields of fact—the wide-reaching abstract concept.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst