wider

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Xi told a delegation of US business executives on Thursday that China would "open wider" to the world.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Eventually, it’ll reach a wider audience and work on desktop web, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"Stagecoach will continue to work with local partners to help students transition onto the wider local bus network and to make best use of available capacity on existing services."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Concerns over a wider regional outbreak have grown after the detection of a positive case in Congo’s capital Kinshasa, the country’s most densely populated city, and two cases in neighboring Uganda’s capital Kampala.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Seeking security in military superiority, they recruited ever larger armies and navies, piled up more and more of the latest new weapons, and built wider and stronger fortifications along their national borders.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman