as in scopes
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
The simple sandals are padded with memory foam, feature non-slip outsoles, and come in both standard and wide widths.
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Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
3 July 2026
From that glossy start emerges an elaborate, colossal bun composed of braids in varying widths—from pencil-thin plaits woven around the base to chunkier folds making up the lion’s share of the height-enhancing sculpture.
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Marci Robin,
Allure,
29 June 2026
Like other Birkenstock shoes, its strap is adjustable, but the shoe also comes in two widths—one for narrow feet and one for wider feet.
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Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
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
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
Mia Huelsbeck,
PEOPLE,
3 July 2026
From that glossy start emerges an elaborate, colossal bun composed of braids in varying widths—from pencil-thin plaits woven around the base to chunkier folds making up the lion’s share of the height-enhancing sculpture.
—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
29 June 2026
Like other Birkenstock shoes, its strap is adjustable, but the shoe also comes in two widths—one for narrow feet and one for wider feet.
—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
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.
—
Amaia Gavica,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
Once the ramp reopens, traffic lane widths will be reduced, officials said.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for widths
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Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
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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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What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
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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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Shah adds that many women feel their best when ferritin levels are at least between 40 and 70 ng/ml for optimal energy and hair health, even if lab ranges suggest lower levels are ‘normal’.
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No other existing or planned telescope can observe through multiple ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum simultaneously on such short notice.
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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 5 Jul. 2026.
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