How to Use across-the-board in a Sentence

across-the-board

adjective
  • Few projects got as much across-the-board love as theirs.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • None had the across-the-board significance of Ohtani’s.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The across-the-board tariff will be added to a set of duties on about 60 countries that levy U.S. goods.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The union achieved many of its goals, including across-the-board pay raises.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That kind of across-the-board success is rare, even for a name as powerful as Lamar.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • An across-the-board sale on stocks isn’t the only thing a recession offers you.
    Chris Carosa, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The downside is that the AI won’t be able to respond well to across-the-board prompts and could be seen as weaker than the larger-sized AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • There is little debate that across-the-board tariffs would raise prices.
    Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • The bill would set an across-the-board maximum annual 36% rate.
    Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But Trump's across-the-board tariff schedule and high rates suggest a harder line this time around.
    Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Woodford had given a $1 per hour, across-the-board wage increase earlier in the year.
    Bruce Schreiner, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Policies vary from restaurant to restaurant, so there's no across-the-board answer.
    Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on all U.S. imports, as well as a 60% tax on products from China.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 July 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
  • Do nothing and see a 23% across-the-board cut in retirement benefits?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024
  • And the markets have been a see-saw since the across-the-board tariffs on trading partners were first announced by Trump on April 2 and scaled back on Wednesday.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In the decree, Trump slapped 10% across-the-board duties against all U.S. imports and released a list of tariffs against dozens of other nations.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The statistics, certainly, paint an almost across-the-board picture of a business in good health.
    Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Peep a few of the best sparkling water brands, below: And though sparkling water may seem like an across-the-board healthy option, not all brands are created equal.
    Sarah Felbin, womenshealthmag.com, 26 May 2023
  • In past budget crises, Petek wrote, the state made across-the-board cuts to per-pupil allocations (the amount the state spends per student) and deferred payments.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 6 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the proposal would also prevent schools from enacting across-the-board bans.
    Ava Sasani, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • However, an across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods did take effect.
    Courtenay Brown, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025

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