as in to widen
to increase the width, breadth, or scope of
They decided to broaden the road by adding an additional lane. You'll find if you broaden your horizons that there are many right paths to choose.
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Recent Examples of broaden
In a Fox Business interview, Carr mentioned that the FTC is contemplating broadening its click-to-cancel rulemaking, asserting his disagreement with the previous administration’s approach to establishing the rule.
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Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
As a result, the invite is automatically forwarded to multiple real targets, broadening the scam’s reach.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The parties used to hunt for ways to broaden their appeal.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
This season’s addition of a former child star client, played by Kyle Bary, broadens the narrative’s lens to examine fame, pressure, and reinvention, themes that resonate far beyond the courtroom.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
As a result, the invite is automatically forwarded to multiple real targets, broadening the scam’s reach.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
The parties used to hunt for ways to broaden their appeal.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
This season’s addition of a former child star client, played by Kyle Bary, broadens the narrative’s lens to examine fame, pressure, and reinvention, themes that resonate far beyond the courtroom.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broaden
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Yet there’s nothing noticeable about him—brown hair, blue eyes, a chin just beginning to widen into adolescence—except the mix of fear and determination that shows when the camera zooms in on his face.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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Travel lanes will then be shifted to the median, so crews can widen the highway and allow for a future tie-in to a new ramp from Sam Wilson Road.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Educational Freedom Accounts program significantly expand state taxpayer funding of student tuition and other costs related to private schools and some home-school expenses.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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This is a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025—a sweeping conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government by expanding presidential power, dismantling parts of the civil service, and rolling back regulations across agencies.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Broaden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broaden. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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