broad-based

adjective

: involving or attracting many different types of people
a broad-based environmental movement

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Although most new tariffs added during Trump's second term are broad-based, the U.S. government has carved out exemptions for certain products, leaving doors open for companies to benefit through tariff engineering, trade lawyers pointed out. Anniek Bao, CNBC, 18 June 2025 Declines were broad-based across oil, natural gas, coal, refined oil products, and chemical raw materials. Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 And while the labor force losses were broad-based, they were more heavily concentrated in women over the age of 55 and men of prime working age (25 to 54), Swonk said. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 6 June 2025 The pace of growth has overall been solid—if not broad-based—but softened in May. Solcyré Burga, Time, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for broad-based

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“Broad-based.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broad-based. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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