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Recent Examples of broadness
The broadness of the sales tax also matters, Close said.
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Michelle Fox, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
By the parable-like broadness of its belief that love is the only thing lucid enough to see through an Orwellian assault on reality.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
What Happens Next The conversation surrounding Kirk's killing, political violence and the broadness of free speech remains ongoing as lawmakers, government officials, the media and the general public continue to discuss last week's events and possible future consequences.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Michelle Fox, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
By the parable-like broadness of its belief that love is the only thing lucid enough to see through an Orwellian assault on reality.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
What Happens Next The conversation surrounding Kirk's killing, political violence and the broadness of free speech remains ongoing as lawmakers, government officials, the media and the general public continue to discuss last week's events and possible future consequences.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadness
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The other funnymen of the time—Milton Berle with his lewd suggestiveness, Jackie Gleason with his baleful roar—did the same shtick over and over.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Everything else was affected by its gravitational pull and drawn into the work of dilating it further—even the firms rumored to be at the farthest remove from the crudity, even negative emissions technologies and the market on which their credits circulated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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But Shelly will still go on about the crudity of newer shows in town, insisting that Razzle Dazzle has an elegant French tone.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.—
Eric Olson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some think the earthiness makes politicians more honest and relatable.—
Cal Thomas,
Arkansas Online,
24 Feb. 2026
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Their scenes together have an erotic earthiness unmatched by almost any other onscreen Heathcliff-Cathy combo.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One of Lamont’s unacknowledged strengths is his public composure and innate courtesy in an era when escalating vulgarity in politics shows an ugly American face to us and the world.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
4 Aug. 2025
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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Good & Gather was noted for having a firmer texture and balanced saltiness.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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However Frankensteinian the shumai, the seasoning of the filling is finely tuned, with a hit of dusky white pepper to nicely complicate the saltiness.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Broadness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadness. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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