How to Use across the board in a Sentence

across the board

1 of 2 phrase
  • With the market suddenly awash with oil, price estimates are being pared across the board.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 30 June 2026
  • Without changes, the program may be forced to rely on deficit spending or reduce payments across the board.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
  • The vows being very emotional seems to be something everyone is reporting across the board.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 6 July 2026
  • My biggest problem with From, not just in Season 4 but across the board after the first season, is the pacing.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • Donaldson, 22, set career highs across the board as a senior at Miami last season.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Precious metals gain Precious metals across the board moved higher on Friday morning.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • That makes sense, since trust fosters improved cooperation and innovation across the board.
    Yufei Ren, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The veteran took advantage of injuries in Florida’s lineup last season to post career highs across the board.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • This also applies to second-round picks and early third-round picks, where my new valuation is lower across the board before reaching equilibrium in the fourth round.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • That authenticity across the board, in addition to what the story is amplifying, excites Talwalkar to no end.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • These cases where dual-class shares have gone awry are often cited by good governance advocates as justification for sunsetting dual-class shares across the board.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 July 2026
  • Marketing dollars are up across the board for players at the top, and the return of Serena Williams, who lost her first match Tuesday, after a nearly four-year absence also boosted the gain.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Shoulder season United and Delta aren’t alone, as airlines across the board are redeploying some of their biggest planes to maintain service to Europe for the full year or well into the offseason.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • The takeaway isn’t that open models outperform proprietary ones across the board but that with task-specific tuning, organizations can choose smaller models that are easier to understand, adapt and replace if needed.
    Jacek Siadkowski, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Another factor in the increasing scores across the board in Florida could be the relative youth of the FAST test, which was first used in 2022.
    Austin Horn july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Enrollment is declining across the board in traditional public schools as the national birthrate continues to fall, charter school enrollment remains robust, private school voucher use increases and the number of immigrant students has flatlined.
    Austin Horn july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • The Core 7 350 generally lagged the Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm alternatives across the board—more in some cases than others.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
  • Rather than simply reducing power use across the board, the system attempts to identify exactly when machinery is wasting energy and proposes operational changes that can reduce consumption without disrupting productivity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026

across-the-board

2 of 2 adjective
  • Then, it would be reduced further by an across-the-board cut.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • There is little debate that across-the-board tariffs would raise prices.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The union achieved many of its goals, including across-the-board pay raises.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Hall said in a tight budget year, an across-the-board pay raise is going to be a high hurdle.
    Barbara Hoberock, Oklahoman, 15 Feb. 2026
  • An across-the-board sale on stocks isn’t the only thing a recession offers you.
    Chris Carosa, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That kind of across-the-board success is rare, even for a name as powerful as Lamar.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Policies vary from restaurant to restaurant, so there's no across-the-board answer.
    Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Chinese goods are now subject to 30% across-the-board tariffs.
    CBS News, 6 July 2025
  • While all five wines are across-the-board knockouts, our favorite is the Black Crown.
    Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 6 July 2025
  • That’s the result of across-the-board improvement in terms of scoring chances from the first two months.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There could be a confluence of events helping fuel that brand of across-the-board thievery.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Thus, the problem is across-the-board and not confined to a specific vendor or app.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • If not, across-the-board spending curbs would kick in on a huge swath of the entire budget, keeping a lid on deficits.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The bill would set an across-the-board maximum annual 36% rate.
    Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
    Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Harris has focused on bringing down costs of specific items or sectors rather than across-the-board prices.
    Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Not to mention that on-court chemistry with Jokic isn’t an across-the-board guarantee.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But he’s also called for across-the-board tariffs, something that many economists say will be passed on to consumers.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Do nothing and see a 23% across-the-board cut in retirement benefits?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
  • His first half was an across-the-board beauty, featuring eight points on four of four shooting, four rebounds and eight assists.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • State employees will get no across-the-board pay raise, which becomes a pay cut when inflation is considered.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • Live television viewership has declined across-the-board over the past few years, with pro football one of the few events to buck the trend.
    Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But Davis said across-the-board cuts don’t necessarily provide relief to those most in need.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
    Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • If schools want across-the-board gains in reading achievement, using one reading curriculum to teach every child isn’t the best way.
    K. Dara Hill, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Mental health is harder to perceive as an across-the-board consideration.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Under the terms of the debt ceiling law, that could trigger a 1% across-the-board cut to defense and nondefense funding.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Season saw across-the-board gains in every broadcast window and for all rights-holding networks and streaming services.
    Greg Cote january 8, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • American is raising the cost more for its no-frills option, while the other airlines had across-the-board increases.
    Michele Luhn, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • But the across-the-board tariffs reduce the appeal of that approach, and rerouting supply chains takes time and involves higher costs.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 9 July 2024

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