wide-reaching

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But how can a chromosome with so few genes have such wide-reaching impact?

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 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 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

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

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