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 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

The ship-owners being to a large extent the coal-owners, the wide-reaching effects of this move can be imagined; every poor family felt them.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada