1
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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2
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
Key ingredients are scale and breadth, collaborations and partnerships, and specialism, or craft, Kate Ward, managing director, Unscripted Productions at BBC Studios Productions, tells THR.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Top Sector Ranking: Top industries: Top 5 Best Stocks by Relative Strength: Spotlight: Sean — Market breadth measures how many stocks are participating in a market move, offering a deeper view of underlying strength beyond index-level performance.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 July 2025
Not only are the two parties unpopular in polling terms, but their struggle for power seems defined more by their deficiencies and limitations than by the breadth of their appeal.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
Three days earlier, the war had spilled across the breadth of Russia as the Ukrainians smuggled a fleet of cheap drones across the border and used them to attack several military airfields, damaging or destroying Russian warplanes worth billions of dollars.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 17 July 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Top Sector Ranking: Top industries: Top 5 Best Stocks by Relative Strength: Spotlight: Sean — Market breadth measures how many stocks are participating in a market move, offering a deeper view of underlying strength beyond index-level performance.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 21 July 2025
Not only are the two parties unpopular in polling terms, but their struggle for power seems defined more by their deficiencies and limitations than by the breadth of their appeal.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
Three days earlier, the war had spilled across the breadth of Russia as the Ukrainians smuggled a fleet of cheap drones across the border and used them to attack several military airfields, damaging or destroying Russian warplanes worth billions of dollars.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breadth
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Harry Potter fans have a new destination to look forward to as Warner Bros. is bringing a spellbinding new theme park attraction Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island in a major expansion of the beloved franchise.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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All of us wanted an expansion of this character, and in particular, the expansion of the relationship with Mr. Wolf.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
2 Aug. 2025
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Benjamin Heber Johnson: Honestly, writing a history of this scope is a huge challenge.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Kentucky's incentives are not unusual in their scope compared to other states and are attractive to the industry, experts said, with the potential to shave millions of dollars off the cost of data center development.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
30 July 2025
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From $308 per night. Perks: Soaking tub, terrace, full kitchen Tucked between misty green mountains and the glassy expanse of Lake Dos Bocas, Villa Limón feels like something out of a dream.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
31 July 2025
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And like those women, the archetype bleeds easily, profusely, beyond the confines of fiction and into the edges and expanses of real life.—
Meg Pillow
July 31,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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The report, released Friday, downplayed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election by highlighting Obama administration emails showing officials had concluded before and after the presidential race that Moscow had not hacked state election systems to manipulate votes in Trump's favor.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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The find also hints that many other tyrannosaurs were feathery to some extent, including later giants like Gorgosaurus and T. rex.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 July 2025
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Fully extended, the creation exceeds the height of the Statue of Liberty or the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
4 Aug. 2025
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The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.—
Michel Martin,
NPR,
4 Aug. 2025
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In the realm of the visual, the Renaissance umanisti became humanists in our sense, almost by accident: what the painters learned from the past gave them license to enliven their work with faces, bodies, and desires.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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The modular form’s numbers only had to be equivalent in the realm of what’s known as clock arithmetic.—
Joseph Howlett,
Wired News,
27 July 2025
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McIntosh was ahead of the pace at the 150-meter mark but slipped just behind in the final stretch.—
Zack Pierce,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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His round featured nine birdies, including a blistering stretch of six on the front nine.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Many of the country's best speakers have presented on a wide range of topics, from the best native plants for your garden to in-depth looks at the flora from native ecosystems.—
Chris McKeown,
The Enquirer,
27 July 2025
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Bose’s first high-profile acquisitions, these high-end audio brands will allow the company to tailor the performance and appearance of its systems to auto brands appealing to a wider range of buyers.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
27 July 2025
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“Breadth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breadth. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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