as in national
including or involving all parts of a nation or country
a nationwide initiative to improve infrastructure
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Recent Examples of nationwide
Meta cited a nationwide shortage of fiber technicians, welders, plumbers, electricians and other skilled tradespeople needed to build data centers.
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 June 2026
The clearest example sits in Publicis Groupe’s 2024 pitch for the Pfizer business, where Liu was selected to join the core pitch team and led a nationwide consumer-testing survey of 350 at-risk atrial fibrillation patients under a three-day deadline.
—William Jones, USA Today, 9 June 2026
While the falcons have challenges to deal with, their life expectancies have increased over the past few decades after being removed from the nationwide and state endangered species lists in 1999 and 2009, respectively.
—Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
The wipes were sold at Target stores nationwide and online on the store website.
—Seamus Bozeman
follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
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Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 9 June 2026
The clearest example sits in Publicis Groupe’s 2024 pitch for the Pfizer business, where Liu was selected to join the core pitch team and led a nationwide consumer-testing survey of 350 at-risk atrial fibrillation patients under a three-day deadline.
—William Jones, USA Today, 9 June 2026
While the falcons have challenges to deal with, their life expectancies have increased over the past few decades after being removed from the nationwide and state endangered species lists in 1999 and 2009, respectively.
—Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 9 June 2026
The wipes were sold at Target stores nationwide and online on the store website.
—Seamus Bozeman
follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nationwide
Adjective
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Whatever proponents call these statutes, the national effect is the same.—
Yaël Ossowski,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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If Stankiewicz’s Trojans return to the College World Series for the first time since 2001, the 12-time national champions must do it out of the losers’ bracket.—
Jose de Jesus Ortiz,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The larger federal action was still a budget-and-eligibility fight dressed up in the language of reform.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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As for the federal government, independent analyses by Grassroots Wildland Firefighters and NPR found that Forest Service wildfire mitigation work is on the decline amid federal staffing cuts.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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“Nationwide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nationwide. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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