broadens

present tense third-person singular of broaden

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Recent Examples of broadens 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 The discovery broadens the understanding of these remarkable invertebrates in Chile’s native forests. Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadens
Verb
  • Without trust and governance, the gap widens.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • That might be a regular thing for a few years, and then again once the Playoff inevitably expands.
    Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • As the Universe expands, the volume increases, while the particle masses and the total number of particles remain the same.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Broadens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadens. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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