widespread

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Instead, the editorial has become a must-read, with tens of thousands of page views and widespread condemnation of the conference organizers’ actions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Although more than one-third of the coyotes examined in the study carried the parasite, researchers found little evidence that it has become widespread in other hosts.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

"Our officers have a role to facilitate and accommodate peaceful protest," he said, while cautioning against a repeat of widespread anti-immigrant rioting last June.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

A magnitude 7 quake happening deep in the mantle–say, four hundred miles down–might cause no surface damage at all, while a significantly smaller one happening just four miles under the surface could wreak widespread devastation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson