as in broadens
to increase the width, breadth, or scope of
Immediate action to widen the highway is needed to ease the near constant congestion. The authorities planned to widen their investigation into Ponzi scheme.
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Recent Examples of widens
Without trust and governance, the gap widens.
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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
From pole, track position turns into leverage, strategy turns conservative and Red Bull’s runway widens.
—Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The scope widens as necessary — to a cross-country train ride, a college campus, a corporate office, and more — but that duo by the water is the heartbeat of a poignant, unmissable film.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, the trust deficit widens and adoption stalls.
—Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Wilson's runway walk widens the space occupied by the women of Musk's family in high fashion.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The gap widens even further with Apple Intelligence enabled—a round 8GB increase on the M4 Air.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Finding these features in younger rocks widens the window of time that Mars was potentially habitable and suggests that Mars could have been habitable later in the planet’s history than scientists previously thought, and older rocks might also hold signs of life that are simply harder to detect.
—Amy J. Williams, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
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
From pole, track position turns into leverage, strategy turns conservative and Red Bull’s runway widens.
—Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The scope widens as necessary — to a cross-country train ride, a college campus, a corporate office, and more — but that duo by the water is the heartbeat of a poignant, unmissable film.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
Otherwise, the trust deficit widens and adoption stalls.
—Prashant Kondle, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Wilson's runway walk widens the space occupied by the women of Musk's family in high fashion.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
The gap widens even further with Apple Intelligence enabled—a round 8GB increase on the M4 Air.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Finding these features in younger rocks widens the window of time that Mars was potentially habitable and suggests that Mars could have been habitable later in the planet’s history than scientists previously thought, and older rocks might also hold signs of life that are simply harder to detect.
—Amy J. Williams, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widens
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Every year that passes broadens the gulf between the Taylors, all while neighborhood and country alike seem to morph into something almost unrecognizable.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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Unfortunately for the squeamish 12-year-old me, the lifelike fluidity intensifies the story’s body-horror elements.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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The danger intensifies when storm surge coincides with high tide, rapidly elevating water levels and increasing the risk of widespread flooding.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Widens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widens. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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