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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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
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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
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Stricter Rules Take Effect The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), passed earlier this year, expands the age range for able-bodied adults without dependents who fall under SNAP’s three-month time limit.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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Johnston told Cartoon Brew that the movie expands the book's short, chaotic structure into a full-length story while staying true to Dahl’s humor.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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As public anger intensifies crucial questions about the next steps remain unanswered.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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The East Coast is bracing for heavy rains and strong winds as a nor’easter intensifies through the weekend.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Widens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widens. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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