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wide

[wahyd] / waɪd /


ADJECTIVE
off-course
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
on-course on-target


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Apple needs to share meaningful artificial-intelligence updates at its World Wide Developers Conference on June 8 to keep Wall Street excited.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

For inspo, we got “Handmaiden,” “Phantom Thread,” “Force Majeure,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “The Informant.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

As bleak, frightening and all-around life-ruining as the internet has proven itself to be, there was a time not long ago when the World Wide Web felt like a portal, not a black hole.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

Wide stretches of airspace across a busy global flight corridor have been shut for days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Wide porches—one upstairs and one downstairs—ran the expanse of the front of the house.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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