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breadth

noun

ˈbretth

Definition of breadth

as in expansion

a wide space or area a great breadth of land awaited those who were brave and hardy enough to settle it

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as in scope

an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends the breadth of his knowledge on the subject is awesome

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Recent Examples of breadth An investor sees the breadth divergence, watches the failed breakouts and notices the heavier down-volume, but then waits for a headline to confirm what the price data has already said. — Thomas Hartmann, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Beyond the headline sales, the first-day results reflected the breadth of demand spanning Korean modernists, international blue-chip names, and younger contemporary artists. — Vivienne Chow, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Homey’s advantage appears to be ease of installation and breadth of support. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 1 Sep. 2026 And of course there’s quite a bit of music that’s already digitized in our database, and there’s a large amount that’s still yet to be digitized and listened to across the breadth of all of the recording devices. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for breadth

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Noun

Amazon has already funded a significant expansion in ULA launch capability to support the Amazon Leo constellation.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
The analysts expect China’s semiconductor capital spending to reach $82 billion by 2030, driven by capacity expansion in memory and advanced nodes amid a growing generative AI trend.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Jenny Lee,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of expansion

Noun

Dalrymple said the scope of decisions and the pressure to perform have never been more daunting.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Analysts say that’s partly because the deals are narrow in scope, largely exist only in principle, and don’t apply to existing drugs used by the more than 200 million Americans with commercial or private health insurance.

— Stephanie Armour, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of scope

Noun

Gauff knocked the ball into a rectangular expanse of blue, as Jović stood in the doubles alley and doubled over to her knees, trying to catch her breath.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
On Florida’s Paradise Coast, an expanse of shoreline running from Naples to the Everglades on the state’s southwest coast, lies Marco Island.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of expanse

Noun

Mercury's rough surface, continually reshaped by debris hurled from impact craters, may have hidden the true extent of the loss, according to the researchers whose findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
The Houthis’ growing alliances with armed groups in Somalia, Sudan, and elsewhere across the Horn of Africa also suggest the extent to which their current escalation could quickly spill over into the broader region.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of extent

Noun

Despite being constructed from the same chemical building blocks, species can have dramatically different lengths of life.

— Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
As regulators look to shrink the length of time spent on drug discovery, Isomorphic is betting on a way to quickly transition from discovery to early stage clinical trials.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of length

Noun

For instance, a credit card company typically reports to the credit-reporting companies the balance, the minimum monthly payment required and the actual payments made over that stretch of time, Ulzheimer said.

— Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
In the past 30 years, this stretch of the Paraná has become one of South America's most important commercial corridors.

— Sebastián López Brach, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026

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