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an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
surprised by the width of his power and influence in the oil business
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Recent Examples of widths
These priority zones focus on pedestrian traffic by installing crosswalks at all intersections, banning right turns on red lights, increasing crossing time, shading sidewalks, lowering speed limits and reducing driving lane widths.
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Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
Choose from seven colors and sizes 5–12, with both standard and wide widths available.
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Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
Available in two widths and several neutral colorways, these sporty-chic walking sandals are packed with lightweight cushioning throughout the midsole that, with the help of contoured footbeds, provides ample arch support for miles on end.
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Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Once the ramp reopens, traffic lane widths will be reduced, officials said.
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Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
The North Star should be about three of your fist-widths at arm’s length to the lower right of Dubhe and Merak.
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Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 June 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
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Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
Choose from seven colors and sizes 5–12, with both standard and wide widths available.
—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
Available in two widths and several neutral colorways, these sporty-chic walking sandals are packed with lightweight cushioning throughout the midsole that, with the help of contoured footbeds, provides ample arch support for miles on end.
—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Once the ramp reopens, traffic lane widths will be reduced, officials said.
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Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
The North Star should be about three of your fist-widths at arm’s length to the lower right of Dubhe and Merak.
—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 June 2026
Others, like a rotating display, have slots of different heights and widths to store a variety of items.
—
Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.
—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
The sun's powerful magnetic dynamo that drives sunspot activity and contributes to unleashing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections has been confirmed as existing 124,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) beneath the sun's visible surface — equivalent to 16 Earth widths' deep.
—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widths
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
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Federal prosecutors allege that Ross and Rhodes concealed their fraud scheme by submitting false documents to CHA, including proposals, scopes of work and invoices.
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The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
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Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.
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The launch marks a new chapter for a series that dates back to 1985, when Sanlorenzo introduced the fiberglass SL57, the first model in what would become one of yachting’s most recognizable ranges.
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Being much smaller, this new portable version can’t quite reach those ranges, however.
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Definitely include the piece's dimensions in your listing, Kristin Keyes, the founder of Kristin Keyes Interiors, says.
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All of these dimensions are thought to be as small as physically possible — close to the Planck scale (10-35 meters) — but the researchers proposed that the dark dimension could be significantly bigger than the others — on the order of a micron (10-6 meters).
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But the physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed and collaborators realized that there were more compact ways to understand these scattering amplitudes.
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The amplitudes from different signals add together, so the values those amplitudes represent also simply add together.
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“Widths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/widths. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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