as in widens
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 broadens
Every year that passes broadens the gulf between the Taylors, all while neighborhood and country alike seem to morph into something almost unrecognizable.
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Miao Hua, the Chinese army's top political officer, was also expelled from the party, as Xi broadens his anti-corruption drive.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 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
Shares are still trading at lower levels, even as the company progresses toward profitability and broadens its ecosystem beyond ride-hailing and delivery to include payments, lending, and digital banking.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The term also broadens the clinical lens.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
As Universal broadens the focus of Halloween Horror Nights, that can create a thematic contrast within the event that can become too difficult for an increasing percentage of the audience to accept.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Sectors like large cap healthcare, in particular, offer defensive value and earnings momentum in this transition, while small caps may catch up later as recovery broadens.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Miao Hua, the Chinese army's top political officer, was also expelled from the party, as Xi broadens his anti-corruption drive.
—Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 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
Shares are still trading at lower levels, even as the company progresses toward profitability and broadens its ecosystem beyond ride-hailing and delivery to include payments, lending, and digital banking.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The term also broadens the clinical lens.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
As Universal broadens the focus of Halloween Horror Nights, that can create a thematic contrast within the event that can become too difficult for an increasing percentage of the audience to accept.
—Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Sectors like large cap healthcare, in particular, offer defensive value and earnings momentum in this transition, while small caps may catch up later as recovery broadens.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadens
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Without trust and governance, the gap widens.—
Adam Mills,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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That said, the action Monday was respectable but uneven, with AMD adding some $70 billion in market value to contribute a third of the S & P 500′s roughly half-percent gain on the day, while Nvidia shed more than $40 billion as the search for scarce processing resources widens.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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The collaboration expands on BMW and Solid Power’s work since 2022, now strengthened by Samsung SDI’s experience in large-scale cell manufacturing and materials engineering.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, the horizontal stroke expands dramatically as AI enables professionals to contribute meaningfully beyond their core expertise.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Broadens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadens. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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